Jennifer Siebel Newsom testified at Harvey Weinstein’s L.A. trial on Monday, becoming emotional from the moment she took her oath on the stand to share graphic details of her alleged sexual a…
’s L.A. trial on Monday, becoming emotional from the moment she took her oath on the stand to share graphic details of her alleged sexual assault. Through heavy tears, Siebel Newsom alleged that she was raped by Weinstein in 2005, when she was an up-and-coming actor and producer. The most high-profile witness of the trial, Siebel Newsom, who is named Jane Doe #4 in the case, is a public advocate for gender equality and is married to California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Siebel Newsom told the jury that when she first met Weinstein in 2005 at the Toronto International Film Festival, she was a working actor and producer with small roles. She was not yet dating Newsom at the time. The prosecution made clear to the jurors that in 2005, Siebel Newsom did not have the same stature that she does today, as the First Partner of California.
Later, when she met up with Weinstein at the hotel bar during TIFF, she said he was very attentive to her. “He was really focused on telling me I was special and I was different,” she said. Weinstein asked for her number, so that they could connect in Los Angeles. “I thought that he would reach out in the future to talk to me more and give me advice on work,” she said.
When the assistant let her into Weinstein’s hotel suite, Siebel Newsom expressed she was taken aback by the opulence. “I hadn’t been to a room like that. I thought, ‘Wow, he’s got a lot of money and a lot of power to be in a suite like this,” she said. “It felt like not what I thought I was going to. It felt fancy, it felt a little bit like a date.” She says she was “nervous” and “uncomfortable,” but she just waited. “Why?” The prosecutor asked.
Through tears, she told the jury, “I saw that he was touching himself, and he grabbed me. And he tried to get me to touch him.” Siebel Newsom testified that Weinstein touched her breast over her clothing and she backed away. She described Weinstein’s demeanor as “aggressive.” Weinstein “mentioned several actresses names,” Siebel Newsom testified, suggesting that Weinstein told her he had been sexually intimate with other actresses in order to boost their career. “He tried to tell me that this was the industry, and in a way, like threaten me.” She said he made her feel like she had no power and like she was “trapped.”
“When I have awakened with nightmares, some of the transitions were less clear to me,” she testified. “He starts groping my breasts and touches himself,” Siebel Newsom testified. “I’m resisting… and he’s touching my breasts and touching himself… I’m trembling. I’m like a rock. I’m frigid. This is my worst nightmare. I’m just this blow-up doll… He takes his fingers and inserts them, but I still had my underwear on.
“This was hell,” she told the jury. She said Weinstein then “pushes me around,” pulls up her dress and “puts his tongue in my vagina.” “I felt tremendous shame, and basically was still processing this all. He had taken a piece of me,” she said. “I was just playing the game. I was just pretending like nothing happened and putting that in a box over here and moving on with my career … I was so violated and I don’t know how that happened. I didn’t see the clues and I didn’t know how to escape.”
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