The jury in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial ended its first day of deliberations today without reaching a verdict. Deliberations will resume tomorrow. Earlier today, the deliberating jury asked New…
rape trial ended its first day of deliberations today without reaching a verdict. Deliberations will resume tomorrow.
The trial in Lower Manhattan’s New York Supreme Court has been underway since January 6, and the seven men and five women who’ll now decide the future of the Miramax co-founder will consider weeks of testimony, a bewildering number of conflicting versions of events and two very different takes on culpability in the #MeToo era. An era, not so incidentally, that owes its existence in no small way to the man on trial.
Four other women, including Sciorra, testified to their own accounts of sexual misconduct involving Weinstein, with prosecutors hoping to establish patterns and bolster the cases of Mann and Haley. Why did Jessica Mann and Miriam Haley maintain friendly contact with Weinstein after, they say, he assaulted them?“Molineaux”
As for those Oscar party invitations and movie premieres accepted by the women, Illuzzi said such networking was the lifeblood of “navigating a very difficult industry.” Attending glitzy parties was work “that looks like play,” a necessity for the financially struggling young models and hopeful actresses. “You know what?” said Illuzzi in her closing argument. “The stupid parties, the stupid events, the premieres, don’t matter. They don’t matter.
“None of these women knew each other,” said Illuzzi. “That’s the hallmark of a predator – isolate them so they will feel like they’re the only one.” The sense of feeling alone and taking on “a giant not only his own industry who gets the president on the phone” accounts for the years-long waits to come forward. “Mimi, Jessica, Annabella – they didn’t know there were other women. They thought it was only them.
So, what difference does it make? The prosecution argued that on the winter night of 1993-’94 when Weinstein raped Sciorra, he’d given her a ride home in a limo following an industry event. Thinking that she was still taking Valium to get to sleep, he waited for 20-30 minutes to return, expecting to find her “groggy” and “weak.” She was neither: Unbeknownst to Weinstein, Sciorra had weaned herself off the drug.
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