Ex-model testifying that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her questioned about private journal

NEW YORK – A erstwhile teen manner exemplary testifying successful Harvey Weinstein ’s retrial connected intersexual battle charges was confronted connected the basal Tuesday with a backstage diary wherever defence attorneys accidental she wrote astir radical who sexually abused her.

As 1 of Weinstein’s lawyers began to question her astir the handwritten journal, Kaja Sokola protested that it shouldn’t beryllium discussed successful unfastened tribunal arsenic she’d written it arsenic portion of a substance maltreatment attraction programme years ago.

“This is precise inappropriate,” she pleaded arsenic the lawyer began to mention portions of the text, which they accidental was primitively written successful Polish successful 2015. “Please don’t work that. This is my idiosyncratic things. I’m not connected proceedings here.”

Judge Curtis Farber dismissed the assemblage for a luncheon interruption arsenic Sokola began to get emotional.

He assured her aboriginal that helium would let the assemblage to perceive constricted questioning astir the document. The justice besides said helium had concerns astir the journal’s completeness and authenticity, wondering however defence lawyers had obtained what appears to beryllium backstage aesculapian records.

“This mightiness backfire tremendously” for the defense, Farber said astatine 1 point, arsenic prosecutors besides powerfully opposed inclusion of the diary arsenic grounds successful the trial. “That’s the hazard they’re consenting to take.”

Sokola, who is present a 39-year-old psychotherapist, continued to propulsion back. Her grounds was expected to resume Tuesday day aft a luncheon break.

“This is unethical,” she insisted to the judge. “I would ne'er bash this to my patient, and I would ne'er bash this to myself.”

Michael Cibella, 1 of Weinstein’s lawyers, told Farber that the defence squad intends to question Sokola connected a portion of the diary wherever she describes astatine slightest 5 intersexual assaults she’s suffered implicit her life.

Weinstein, they say, is not among those she named, though helium does look elsewhere successful the journal. They accidental she references her vexation and disappointment aft a “Harvey W” had led her along, “promising maine help” but “nothing came retired of it.”

Sokola testified past week that Weinstein exploited her dreams of an acting vocation to taxable her to unwanted intersexual advances, starting days aft they met successful 2002, portion she was a 16-year-old connected a modeling travel to New York.

Some of those allegations are beyond the ineligible clip bounds for transgression charges, but Weinstein faces a transgression enactment enactment complaint implicit Sokola’s assertion that helium forced oral enactment connected her successful 2006.

Prosecutors added the charge to the landmark #MeToo lawsuit past year, aft an appeals tribunal overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction. The blameworthy verdict pertained to allegations from 2 different women, who besides person testified oregon are expected to attest astatine the retrial.

Weinstein, 73, has pleaded not blameworthy and denies ever sexually assaulting anyone.

His lawyers, successful their cross-examination of Sokola that began Friday, person sought to rise doubts astir her allegations, portraying her arsenic a wannabe histrion who tried to leverage her consensual relations with the erstwhile workplace boss.

The Associated Press mostly does not sanction radical who allege they person been sexually assaulted, but Sokola has fixed her support to beryllium identified.

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