Tuesday, 04 Feb 2020 08:31 AM MYT
Jessica Mann, 34, began weeping uncontrollably as she read the May 2014 email aloud under cross-examination by one of Weinstein's lawyers, Donna Rotunno. She was still crying after a brief break, prompting Justice James Burke to end testimony for the day. Mann wrote in the email to an actor she had been dating at the time that she was working through “father issues” when she was with Weinstein.Mann is expected to be cross-examined further today.
Earlier in Mann's cross-examination, Rotunno repeatedly suggested that Mann willingly had sex with Weinstein to advance her career. At one point she asked whether Mann “manipulated” Weinstein when she sent him friendly messages and asked to see him, even though she was not attracted to him.