“He was really focused on telling me I was special, and I was different,” Jennifer Siebel Newsom told a downtown Los Angeles jury today of her first meeting with Harvey Weinstein
“He was like the kingmaker, he was the top of the industry,” Siebel Newsom stated encountering Weinstein in 2005 at the Toronto Film Festival. “I was a working actress, I had little roles, guest starring roles on TV shows and films, and I was working on some short films, I’d been in two features … but they were small roles,” she added in her testimony that started just before the lunch break.
Expected to continue her testimony this afternoon, Siebel Newsom broke down in tears at one point this morning when asked to point out Weinstein in the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center courtroom. With two security guards in the front row of Judge Lisa Lench’s courtroom, Siebel Newsom took the stand to questions from Deputy L.A. County D.A. Marlene Martinez after several other witness had testified Monday.
In his opening statement in the trial last month, Weinstein lawyer Mark Werkman dismissed the First Partner of California as no more than “just another bimbo who slept with Harvey Weinstein to get ahead in Hollywood” if she hadn’t married now Governor Gavin Newsom.
In late October, Judge Lench curtailed the defense’s ability to question Siebel Newsom about her 2007 communication with Weinstein over an affair her then boyfriend Mayor Newsom had with a campaign aide’s spouse. The judge also limited the prosecution’s reach to ask about texts Siebel Newsom had with Louisette Geiss in 2015 about Weinstein and comments about former First Daughter Malia Obama’s internship at the Weinstein Company in early 2017.
Weinstein’s trial is expected to run until the end of the month before the case goes to the jury for deliberation.
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