US EditionEx-model testifying that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her questioned about private journal
- A former teen model named Kaja Sokola testified on Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein's Manhattan retrial on sexual assault charges and was confronted with a private journal.
- The journal, written in Polish in 2015, contains entries about at least five sexual assaults Sokola suffered, naming two assailants but excluding Weinstein, who is charged with a 2006 criminal sex act.
- Weinstein's defense attorney Michael Cibella said they would question Sokola on the journal and portray her as leveraging consensual relations, while prosecutors strongly opposed the journal's use as evidence.
- As Sokola became emotional while testifying and raised issues about the journal’s authenticity, completeness, and the acquisition of private medical records, Judge Curtis Farber paused the trial and sent the jury out for a lunch break.
- Weinstein, 73, denies all allegations, has pleaded not guilty, and the retrial follows an appeals court overturning his 2020 conviction, while Sokola, now 39 and a psychotherapist, will resume testimony soon.
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Weinstein's office kept a list of women 'friends of Harvey,' an ex-aide testifies
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein 's assistants kept a list of female “friends of Harvey” to invite to events and sometimes considered them a special category for guest lists, an ex-aide testified Thursday at the former movie mogul's sex…
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Weinstein accuser rips defense lawyer: ‘You should be ashamed of yourself’
By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former model reproached one of Harvey Weinstein ’s lawyers for suggesting that her sexual abuse allegations against the ex-studio boss are lies. “You should be ashamed of yourself,” Kaja Sokola retorted. In her fifth and final day of testimony at Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial, she maintained that she was telling the truth and that Weinstein’s alleged conduct in her teens had changed the cour…
Harvey Weinstein Accuser Kaja Sokola Protests as Defense Reads and Questions Her About Private Journal: ‘I’m Not on Trial Here’
Harvey Weinstein’s legal team resumed their questioning of Kaja Sokola, one of the convicted movie mogul’s accusers, on Tuesday during his retrial in Manhattan. The defense questioned the former Polish model about a private journal in which she documented people who had sexually assaulted her — but notably did not include Harvey Weinstein. Instead, the former Hollywood producer was mentioned in other contexts, including an entry referring to “…
Polish Model Protests as Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Read From Her Diary in Court: 'I'm Not on Trial Here'
A former teen model on the stand to testify against Harvey Weinstein protested Tuesday as the disgraced movie mogul’s attorneys began to read from her personal diary in the Manhattan courtroom where his sexual assault retrial is into its second week. Facing cross-examination in her third day of testimony, Kaja Sokola was confronted by defense lawyers with passages from the journal, written in 2015 in Polish. Kaja protested, saying it was for a s…
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