“Merrouf”: A previous model tells the jury that Harvey Winstein is sexually obsessed with her when she was sixteen years old.

Warning: This article may affect those who have suffered from sexual violence or know someone affected by it.

A previous model witnessed on Thursday that Harvey Winstein attacked her sexually when she was sixteen years old, describing her most terrifying thing “until this stage.

Kaja Sukola, the ambitious actress at the time, told Winstheen’s jurors that Honcho was once put his hand inside her underwear and made her the touch of his genitals in Manhattan’s apartment in 2002.

Sukola said that she saw the eyes of Winstein – “black and frightening” – staring at her in the bathroom mirror, as happened.

She then said, she told her to keep quiet about what happened, marking that he made aircraft professions like GWYNTH Paltrow and Penelope Cruz and that it could help her dreams in Hollywood.

“I was never in such a situation,” Sucla witnessed, as the esteemed jury made notes. “I felt cloudy and shame, and like my mistake to put myself in this situation.”

Veneztein is not accused of any crime regarding the alleged attack, which was first detailed in a lawsuit a few years ago. Place the timing outside the law of restrictions on criminal charges.

Sukola is witnessing that Winstheen is accused of the performance of oral sex at the Manhattan Hotel after four years, at the time of her twentieth birthday. Prosecutors say that this happened after Winstein arranged for Sukola to be additional in the movie “The Nanny Diaries”.

Sukola reported the claim of the authorities a few days in the first trial of Winztein in 2020, but it was not part of this case. The representatives of the prosecution added it to the re -trial, where they joined two women who witnessed in the first case, after his conviction last year.

Winstein, who is now 73 years old, looked down and away from Sukola as she narrated the previous prosecution, pressed his left thumb and his finger on his face like a shield.

Sukola witnessed that she met first with their coach at Manhattan Restaurant in 2002, three or four days before the alleged attack. “She asked her if she wanted to be an actress.

A few days later, she said, invited her to lunch – outwardly to talk about acting – but instead he moved her to an apartment, where he led her to a bedroom and then a bathroom, ordered her to delay her and her assault.

“I told me to get out of my clothes and I didn’t want to do so. I was panic,” Then he said that if you want to be an actress, this is what the actors do in the movies, so I must be accustomed to it.

Sokola avoided looking at Winstein walking to the witness platform – witnessing for the second day after its details on Wednesday in her upbringing in Poland, and how she entered modeling and her professional life as a psychiatrist and author recently launched a film production company. She looked shortly in Winstein when she asked Thursday to refer to it in court.

Winstein acknowledged that he was not guilty and denies sexual assault on anyone.

His lawyers claim that his accused agreed to sexual confrontations with him in the hope of obtaining the opportunities of films and television, and the defense has confirmed that women remain in contact with him for a period of time after the alleged attacks. Meanwhile, women from producers say at the time, used the possibility of working on working on prey on her.

Sokola is not part of the 2020 trial

Sukola filed a lawsuit against Winztein after the whispers of industry about his behavior against women became a choir of public accusations in 2017, prompting #Metoo movement against sexual misconduct. Public prosecutors said that Sukola eventually received $ 3.5 million as compensation.

Prosecutors said that they began investigating Sukola’s claims in 2020, but they put the investigation aside after the conviction of Winstein. The investigation was revived after it was reflected in the highest court in New York.

Winstein’s lawyers fought in vain to remove Sukola from the retrial, accusing prosecutors “smuggling additional fees in the case” to try to enhance the credibility of the other accused.

One of the others, Myriam Haley, witnessed last week that Winztein forced oral sex in 2006. It is expected that the third suspect in the case, Jessica Man, will be later at a time.

The Associated Press generally does not name the defendants of sexual assault without their permission, which was presented by Haley, Man and Sukola.

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