Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted a 16-year-old model inside a Soho apartment. And boasted to her about helping Gwyneth Paltrow and Penelope Cruz boost the careers.
Kaha Sokora, the youngest accuser of dishonest film producer, has been identified as a new witness in the Manhattan Supreme Court to confront the accused’s serial pest after a prior conviction at the height of the #MeToo movement was thrown into appeal.
The 73-year-old former Miramax mogul, who was imprisoned, defeated a native Polish player and in 2006 he said “Don’t cry” and “Don’t cry.”
He is said to have been the first to assault a Polish native in 2002 after she agreed to meet him for lunch, prosecutors said.
Weinstein then asked the driver to take her to his apartment where she invited her to the guise that she needed to grab “some papers,” Lucy said.
While inside, the “pulp fiction” producer demanded that the teenager remove his shirt – saying “this is what happens in the industry,” and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors said.
After the attack ended, Paltrow and Cruz, who dropped Weinstein’s name, said she “needs to tackle stubbornness” before giving Sokora sick advice.
Weinstein was moved around to court in a wheelchair on Wednesday morning. He sat at the defense table wearing a naval suit, a white shirt and a tie.
He sipped calmly from the cup of water, as the prosecutor explained his horrifying assault.
Sokora is expected to testify at trial, alongside two other women who say Weinstein lured them into the web with a promise to advance his career before he sexually assaulted them.
Weinstein was separately convicted of rape in California after an Italian model testified that she had thrown herself into her after appearing outside her hotel room at the 2013 Italian Film Festival.
He is currently being held at Bellevue Hospital after persuading the judge to temporarily transfer him from Rikers Island, where he claims he is not receiving proper treatment for his various health illnesses.
