Ex-powerhouse producer Harvey Weinstein tried to power a younger actress right into a torturous threesome with an Italian-born starlet earlier than later raping her, she tearfully testified in Manhattan courtroom Tuesday.
Jessica Mann, now 40, hysterically broke down on the witness stand when she recounted in courtroom for the third time how the grotesque, then-300-pound Weinstein pinned her down on a mattress earlier than allegedly raping her contained in the Doubletree Resort in Midtown on March 18, 2013.
“I stated, ‘No’ again and again, and I attempted to depart,” Mann stated by sobs, shortly earlier than displaying jurors how Weinstein allegedly pinned each of her wrists above her head through the intercourse assault.
“He simply handled me like he owned me,” she stated.
Mann stated Weinstein additionally raped her later that 12 months — and that she handed out through the asssault as a result of he was “so heavy.”
The jailed mogul, who sat in a crinkled swimsuit in a wheelchair, was initially convicted of raping Mann in 2020, however the state’s excessive courtroom later over turned the decision, paving the way in which for a second trial that then ended with a hung jury.
Mann — on the stand Tuesday for the second day in what’s now the fallen Hollywood kingpin’s third Manhattan sex-crimes trial — testified about two alleged intercourse assaults she endured from Weinstein.
The previous actress stated that shortly after she met Weinstein in Los Angeles as a 27-year-old making an attempt to launch her appearing profession, the horn canine rapidly went from admiring her potential to making an attempt to get in her pants.
Mann testified about having a “full-on breakdown” when Weinstein allegedly tried directing her to have a threesome with Italian-born actress Emanuela Postacchini on the Montage Beverly Hills lodge in February 2013 — inflicting Mann to run into a toilet and escape in tears.
A disgruntled Weinstein went on to sleep with Postacchini — who Mann stated consoled her within the second — earlier than the perv allegedly muttered to Mann, ” ‘Oh, I’ll by no means attempt to try this once more with you,’ ” after the lavatory scene.
Mann testified she had a consensual relationship with Weinstein at one level as a result of she felt that it might result in a “loving relationship” — whereas additionally noting how Weinstein’s energy in Tinseltown affected her determination to get entangled with him.
She described how Weinstein might swap from Hollywood icon into an erratic brat who would make an entire lot out of nothing if he didn’t get his manner.
“Harvey advised me lots of tales about simply how highly effective he was and the issues he did,” the cosmetologist and hairstylist stated.
“Primarily, his pals go very far and his enemies don’t step foot on this city,” she stated of the persona he cultivated.
Mann stated Weinstein advised her that he was in an “open relationship” with then-wife Georgina Chapman after they determined to a consensual relationship — and even laughed in her face as soon as when she requested if she was his girlfriend.
Mann stated she was anxious about Weinstein’s relationship with highly effective folks resembling former President Invoice Clinton.
“He simply all the time name-dropped all people on a regular basis,” she stated of Weinstein. “It was simply the a part of the fact of who he’s. He isn’t a traditional individual. I used to be not in a relationship with a traditional individual.”
Weinistein was initially convicted of raping Mann and forcing oral intercourse on former “Challenge Runaway” manufacturing Assistant Mimi Haley in 2020.
However after New York’s highest courtroom overturned the responsible verdict, Mann testified once more final summer time — staring down Weinstein upon wrapping up and pointing a finger at her eye, demanding that the convicted intercourse pest have a look at her.
Jurors on the re-trial convicted him once more of the Haley cost however couldn’t determine on the Mann rap after a tumultuous week of deliberations.
Mann additionally testified Tuesday concerning the second assault later in 2013 the place she claims Weinstein raped her after she advised him that she had discovered true “love” with an actor. She recalled falling unconscious underneath his weight on the time.
Mann, who advised the jury that Weinstein as soon as advised her that she was “prettier than Natalie Portman,” stated she continues to imagine that he’s nonetheless a “genius” even after the alleged rape.
“There are issues about Harvey that I actually like,” Mann stated, as Weinstein peered over to the jury with a slight smile.
Weinstein has pleaded not responsible and faces faces as much as 25 years in jail when he’s sentenced on the cost of forcing Haley into oral intercourse.
He has already been convicted of a rape in California and sentenced to 16 years behind bars there.
Mann is anticipated to return to the Manhattan witness stand Wednesday.
