Jane Doe 1 – Unidentified Italian actress
An Italian model and actress testified that Harvey Weinstein raped her in a hotel bathroom in 2013 when she attended the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival.
She claimed that he forced her to perform oral sex on him as he had problems maintaining an erection.
‘I was kind of hysterical through tears,’ she said. ‘I kept saying ‘no, no, no.’
She said she physically feared Weinstein, who outweighed her by 100 pounds or more.
She said by the time Weinstein took her into the bathroom to rape her, she stopped physically resisting, though still objected verbally.
Jane Doe 2 – Lauren Young
Lauren Young alleged that Weinstein masturbated in front of her and groped her breasts in a hotel bathroom during a meeting in 2013 that was to take place in a hotel lobby.
She said she was an aspiring actress at the time who had hoped to meet the former film producer about a script she wrote, when she claims actress Claudia Salinas locked her and Weinstein in the bathroom of the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Young said Weinstein started the shower and immediately took off his clothes.
‘I was disgusted,’ she continued. ‘I had never seen a big guy like that naked.
‘I actually laughed nervously and thought ‘no, no, no,” she added as she began to cry.
Young described Weinstein’s penis as ‘disgusting’ and said it looked like it ‘had been chopped off and sewn back on.’
‘I kept saying ‘no no no,’ she recounted. ‘He just ignored what I said.’
‘Everything happened so fast.’
Young said she backed up toward the sink and turned away from the movie mogul, but he unzipped the back of her dress and pulled it down to around her hips.
‘He was grabbing my breasts and jerking off, like squinting at me, not looking at me,’ she said. ‘Holding me there and talking to me.’
‘He was just masturbating and groping me.’
Young also previously testified during Weinstein’s New York trial in 2020.
Jane Doe 3
A massage therapist said Weinstein groped her and masturbated in front of her in a bathroom after one of their appointments in 2010.
She said when she went to wash her hands in the bathroom, the movie mogul barged in naked and began masturbating before pushing her up against a wall and groping underneath her shirt.
‘He went toward me in a very aggressive manner. He pushed me against the wall. That’s when he started to put his hand under my bra and feel my chest,’ she said.
‘I was terrified, I thought I was about to get raped,’ she said.
After he finished, the masseuse asked him ‘why did you do this to me?’ to which he responded ‘We’re close friends now, you have full access to me. I want to get you a book deal to write about massage.’
They had more massage sessions, where he again masturbated ‘about six feet away’ from her and asked her to watch him.
Jane Doe 4 – Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Jennifer Siebel Newsom testified that Weinstein raped her in 2005 when she was 31 and trying to build a career as an actor and producer.
She found herself unexpectedly alone with Weinstein in a suite at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, where she had agreed to join him for a meeting. She said she assumed others would be present and they would talk about her career.
He emerged from the bathroom in a robe with nothing underneath and began groping her while he masturbated. Siebel Newsom said she faked an orgasm to end her ordeal.
‘I was making some noises to get him to finish, he had already raped me.
Defense Attorney Mark Werksman asked her how she ‘indicated her pleasure’, resulting in a visibly appalled Newsom.
She responded, ‘This is not When Harry Met Sally. I’m not doing that.’
She, of course, was referencing the 1989 movie in which Meg Ryan’s character fakes an orgasm in a restaurant.
Under cross examination, Siebel Newsom told Marlene Martinez, deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, that she was trying to regain control of her life.
When asked if it was her intent to ‘have sexual intercourse with Harvey Weinstein,’ she yelled ‘no’ as she sobbed on the stand.
Martinez asked if she told Weinstein no.
‘I did! I did with my voice and with my body.
‘I tried to be kind – I did by slamming my legs together.
‘I tried to get out of there, I tried, I tried so hard.’