Harvey Weinstein accuser Jessica Mann gushed about how “straightforward” it was to “love” the disgraced ex-Hollywood bigwig — simply two days after he allegedly raped her, in line with a bombshell notice launched Thursday at his third Manhattan trial.
Mann, a former actress, typed the notice, titled “Ideas,” on her cellphone on March 20, 2013 and the choose decided that it was “clear” that it was in reference to Weinstein.
“Do I like him or the concept of him? With him—straightforward. The thought of increasing that—fulfilling,” Mann mused — two days after she stated she was sexually assaulted by Weinstein in a room on the DoubleTree resort in Manhattan.
Mann’s love notice turned the focus Thursday simply after the court docket took their afternoon lunch break.
Weinstein’s attorneys stated they wished to press Mann on the writing they stated was referring to the Miramax perv.
“That is her advanced emotions of beginning to fall in love with a married man. She talks about that,” lawyer Marc Agnifilo stated in his bid to introduce it at trial.
Choose Curtis Farber quizzed Mann on the notice, asking her if she had been courting anybody on the time she was allegedly raped by Weinstein.
“I really feel like as a result of there’s a degree that it was an open relationship, however I can’t particularly bear in mind at this level,” Mann stated, referring to how Weinstein had allegedly advised her that he was in an “open relationship” with then-wife Georgina Chapman.
The choose decided that it was “clear” that Mann was referring to Weinstein within the notice earlier than permitting his attorneys to get it into proof.
Mann — who testified that Weinstein raped her on two separate events — was on the witness stand for a 3rd day earlier than she was excused early by the choose when she expressed feeling mild headed and “spacey.”
She spent all the day being grilled by protection lawyer Teny Geragos on how she turned acquainted with Weinstein, the love notice, which she learn to the jury, and the alleged “failed threesome” with an Italian actress.
Weinstein, 74, is being accused for a 3rd time by Mann of raping her in March 2013 — along with a separate assault in Beverly Hills in late 2013 or early 2014.
Weinstein was initially convicted in 2020 earlier than the decision was overturned by an appeals court docket.
At his retrial final yr, the jury couldn’t agree on a choice on Mann’s cost.
On Thursday, Mann was requested about an unpublished weblog put up which she wrote about when Weinstein allegedly tried to drive her right into a tortuous threesome with him and Italian actress Emanuela Postacchini.
Within the put up, Mann fantasized about having the ability to “play with this actual life Barbie doll.”
She testified that she had a “full-on breakdown” when she was contained in the room with Weinstein and Postacchini — however stated that she was simply “attempting to jot down one thing humorous” later concerning the would-be ménage à trois.
“I used to be ushered round a celebration once I was launched to what I can solely describe as Jesus as a girl,” Mann wrote within the raunchy weblog, referring to Postacchini.
When requested by Geragos to verify that she touched Postacchini each in actual life and within the weblog, Mann snapped on the lawyer for attempting to indicate that the remainder of the account was true.
“I’ve been specific that this weblog just isn’t a file of what occurred. So we are able to decide aside no matter you need,” Mann testified. “It’s not a file of that night time and I’ve taken some inspiration from that.”
Mann returns to the witness stand Friday to renew cross examination.
