Claire Reid
Jennifer Siebel Newsom sobbed in court as she testified against disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein in his high-profile sexual assault case.
Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Govenor Gavin Newsom, broke down as she recounted how Weinstein allegedly raped her at a hotel in Beverly Hills in 2005.
She told the court: “I’m standing. I’m resisting. Horror. I’m trembling. This is my worst nightmare. I’m just this blow-up doll that he’s just trying to masturbate off of.”
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Deputy District Attorney Marlene Martinez asked the former actor to describe Weinstein’s body, to which she said: “Lots of bruises, markings, yellow and green, lots of stretch marks on his belly, very not physically fit at all. Looked uncircumcised and strange though, kind of fish-like, the penis, something was distorted in the testicle … Lots of skin, lots of skin down there.”
Weinstein is already serving a 23-year sentence for the rape and sexual assault in New York.
He’s currently facing fresh charges of sexual assault against four women in Los Angeles.
Siebel Newsom, 48, told the court she had agreed to meet Weinstein in his hotel suite to discuss a film project - she said that the influential filmmaker ‘could make or ruin your career’.
She says that once inside the room, he changed out of his robe and started to ‘manipulate’ and ‘threaten’ her, before penetrating her with his fingers and penis.
Siebel Newsom told the court through tears: “He knows this is not normal. He knows this is not consent.
“And then he puts part of his penis inside of me because he pushes me back against the bed.
“It’s not staying in because his penis is so weird and messed up. He realizes this. I was just worried I was going to get some disease. It was so gross.”
After the alleged rape, Siebel Newsom said she just wanted to ‘get the f**k out of there’, before apologizing to the court for her language.
She went on: “I tried to put what happened into a box, even though it came out at times.
“And my sadness and my fear changed at times into anger.”
Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to four counts of rape and seven counts of sexual assault involving five women.
He has denied ever engaging in non-consensual sex.
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