Mel Gibson will not be taking the strand in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial. Prosecutors wouldn’t reveal in Judge Lisa Lench’s courtroom today why they’ve decided not to have …
Prosecutors wouldn’t reveal in Judge Lisa Lench’s courtroom today why they’ve decided not to have the Oscar winner testify after all. However, Deputy LA District Attorneys Paul Thompson and Marlene Martinez made it very clear that Gibson will not be trekking down to the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. The LA DA’s office did not respond to request from Deadline on more details of why Gibson will not be testifying.
Long on the witness list in the case, Gibson was set to speak in corroboration for Jane Doe #3. In an interview last year with investigators, thedirector said that when he casually mentioned Weinstein’s name to Jane Doe #3 while getting a massage, she noticeably tensed up and became upset.
Court documents and subsequent testimony claim that Weinstein did assault the massage therapist in hotel in LA County in 2010. “He was the first person that I finally opened up with about what happened,” Jane Doe #3 told the DTLA courtroom earlier this month of her conversations with Gibson years later. “I told him that he sexually assaulted me, but I didn’t want to get into all the details. I was embarrassed and humiliated.
Disallowing a defense motion to be able to bring up Gibson’s own ominous past of anti-Semitic, racist and sexist statements, Judge Lench in a pre-trial hearingas a witness. In that context, the defense also seemed intent on highlighting a perceived animosity between Gibson and Weinstein based on thebook published by the latter on the former’s successful but contentious and explicit 2004 Biblical drama.
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