A witness in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial Monday emphatically denied helping facilitate an alleged assault between the fallen Hollywood mogul and accuser Lauren Young.
The premise of the meeting, Young said, was to talk about her unfinished script. Weinstein, Salinas and Young talked briefly at the restaurant over drinks, Young said. Then, she alleges, Weinstein told both women that he needed to go up to his room because he had to prepare to accept an award later that night, and he invited them to join him.Young said that once they entered Weinstein’s hotel room, the producer led her into a bathroom, with Salinas behind her.
During cross-examination, prosecutor Meghan Hast called attention to inconsistencies between what Salinas told investigators in 2019 and what she told jurors Monday. In Los Angeles County, the accusations made by Young and an Italian model led prosecutors to charge Weinstein with forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force and sexual battery by restraint on the eve of his New York trial. He faces up to 28 years in state prison if convicted of all counts in California.In her testimony, Young recalled a moment during the alleged assault when she realized the encounter may have been planned.
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