Weinstein's office kept a list of women 'friends of Harvey,' an ex-aide testifies

NEW YORK – Harvey Weinstein 's assistants kept a database of pistillate “friends of Harvey” to invitation to events and sometimes considered them a peculiar class for impermanent lists, an ex-aide testified Thursday astatine the erstwhile movie mogul's sex crimes retrial.

“A ‘friend of Harvey’ was a pistillate that he’d conscionable astatine events oregon parties oregon festivals oregon — somewhere,” said Elizabeth Perz, 1 of his enforcement assistants from 2011 to 2013.

The then-married Weinstein asked his assistants to invitation these women to events, Perz said. It was specified communal signifier that Weinstein's subordinates had a shorthand: “Might arsenic good adhd a FOH column,” Perz advised colleagues by email arsenic they discussed the attendee database for immoderate 2013 awards-season events.

Jurors were shown a roster of good implicit a twelve names, which Perz said was kept successful the bureau astatine Weinstein’s now-defunct accumulation company. The names were breached down by geography, specified arsenic “LA Friends” oregon “Cannes/Etc/all invites."

One “LA Friends” introduction was Jessica Mann, 1 of the 3 women whose allegations are astatine the bosom of the retrial.

Weinstein has pleaded not guilty. The once-powerful workplace boss, who became a premier people of the #MeToo movement's run against intersexual misconduct, maintains that he's ne'er had intersexual encounters that weren't consensual.

During the past 5 years, helium was convicted of assorted enactment crimes successful some New York and California. But he's connected proceedings again due to the fact that an appeals tribunal recovered that his New York trial was tainted by prejudicial grounds and overturned that conviction. He's charged with raping Mann successful 2013 and forcing oral enactment connected 2 different women, separately, successful 2006.

Mann, who was a hairstylist and aspiring histrion erstwhile she met Weinstein successful the aboriginal 2010s, is expected to attest successful the coming days oregon week. The different accusers, Miriam Haley and Kaja Sokola, already person taken the stand.

At Weinstein's 2020 trial, Mann painted a analyzable and affectional representation of a yearslong narration that began consensually but became “degrading” and volatile and yet exploded into rape. Still, she kept seeing him and sending lukewarm messages due to the fact that she wanted him to judge she "wasn’t a threat,” she testified.

Weinstein's lawyers astatine the clip argued that Mann willingly had a intersexual liaison with him to service her acting ambitions. At 1 constituent during his defense's questioning successful 2020, she began sobbing truthful forcefully that tribunal ended aboriginal that day.

At the retrial connected Thursday, jurors saw messages that Perz had sent to Mann astir immoderate Oscars-related parties successful 2013.

“Harvey would similar to widen an invitation to you” and a friend, Perz wrote.

The Associated Press mostly does not place radical who alleged they person been sexually assaulted unless they hold to beryllium identified, which Sokola, Haley and Mann person done.

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