Actress Annabella Sciorra invented Weinstein rape charge to be “relevant” again, says defense
star concocted the incident with Weinstein to become “relevant” again, Weinstein’s defense attorney said Thursday at the producer’s criminal trial., in her closing arguments this afternoon, told jurors that Sciorra initially told Farrow, in early 2017, that she’d never been attacked by Weinstein and joked that she “wasn’t his type.
“They saw her break down,” Rotunno said, referring to the trial’s most emotional moment when Mann had a panic attack and dissolved into sobs on the witness stand under cross-examination by the defense. Prosecutors, Rotunno said, “put Jessica Mann up there” and then, after watching the breakdown, didn’t re-direct — “the only witness they didn’t re-direct.”
Weinstein, the 67-year-old former Miramax and The Weinstein Company chief, is on trial in New York State Supreme Court in the cases of Miriam Haley, a production assistant onin 2006 when, she says, Weinstein held her down in a hotel room and forcibly performed oral sex on her; and Mann, a former actress, model and hairstylist who claims Weinstein raped her in 2013 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Midtown Mannhattan.
“Thank you for your unfailing support and kindness,” Rotunno quoted Mann, then added, “again, not words you say to your rapist.” As she did earlier today in her closing argument about Haley, Rotunno indicated that Mann’s ulterior motive in bringing the criminal charges is to take advantage of New York State’s more forgiving statue of limitations compared to Los Angeles, but that in order to take advantage of the allowed time for a New York civil case, criminal charges needed to be filed first. Rotunno reminded jurors of a February 12, 2018 email in which Mann expressed her knowledge of the states’ statutes.
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