Harvey Wenstein’s #MeToo retric on Wednesday opened, giving a new look on allegations of familiar rape and sexual assault – as well as a new couple claim from a pre -model.
For the first time, prosecutors publicly identified Kaza Socola and expanded his account about what came out between him and the Oscar winning filmmaker in the early 2000s. In 2006, she was accused of criminal for force to force oral sex, but she was also accused of prosecuting a civilian against her when she was 16, four years ago.
Like the two other accused in the case, Socola accused of a complex range of encounters and reactions – being sexually attacked, yet staying in touch, beware of Venstein, but want to remain in good words with a power broker, which endanger the possibility of an acting career.
In an initial statement, prosecutor Shannon Lucy told the gamblers, “Why did the defendant hold this level of strength and control in the eyes of these three women? … This is because Harvey Venstain has defined the area.” “He knew how attracted to the promises of success. He produced, he choreographed, so he instructed, his last silence over the years.”
Wenstein has requested not to be guilty, and defense lawyer Arthur Edala has depicted the accused as interested partners in a showbiz Kwid Pro Quo.
“Casting couch is not a crime site,” Edala told the majority female jury. He compared the allegations of the prosecutors to the preview of a film that “becomes flat on his face”.
The 73 -year -old Winstein is sitting in a wheelchair, which he now uses due to health problems, not looking at Lucy or Jury during his presentation. But Venstein looked closely as Edala underlined her defense.
Retriel is getting out of the New York’s top court last year excluded Veenstein’s sentence, which was a watershed moment for the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct in 2020. The High Court found that the previous trial judge had allowed a biased testimony about the allegations separate from the allegations.
Vinstein’s retrick is playing in a different cultural moment than before. #MeToo, which exploded, developed and ebed in 2017 with allegations against Venstein.
When Vensteten’s first test began, the mantra of “rapist” could be heard out of protesters. This time, none of it was.
Socola’s lawyer, Lindsay Goldbrum, has “catching the system for other survivors – catching the system – and that it is still worth speaking when obstacles seem inaccessible.”
While this jury will not hear about the allegations that were first convicted, the panel is expected to hear from Socola. The High Court sent it back to withdraw the case, the prosecutors added an allegation of a criminal sex act based on their allegations.
According to prosecutors, Polish -born Socola met Vinstein after a visit to New York in 2002 after a 2002 visit to New York. She alleged that she invited her for lunch to discuss possible acting jobs, but missed her apartment and demanded that she demands to take off her shirt if she wanted to make it in the film business. Then, Socola alleged, Venstein liked her touching her genitals.
Over the next few years, Socola remained in touch with Venstein, even after allegedly told him to catch him in a car around 2004, Lucy told the gamblers. He said that Venstein arranged for an additional to Socola in Rome-Com of 2007 the nanny DiariesAnd he invited her for lunch to impress her sister.
After lunch, he asked Socola to examine some scripts in his Manhattan Hotel room, ordered him to be blown, grabbed her on a bed, and had oral sex on her, while he torn her to do so, Lucy said.
The prosecutor said that after weeks, Socola was photographed with Venstein and third person at an event, and his company wrote to him an acting-school recommendation. Lucy told the gamblers that the power imbalance often “causes the victims to behave in ways that leparsen may not expect.”
After other allegations against Venstein in 2017, Socola filed a case. The prosecutors said they found $ 3.5 million in compensation.
Edala said that the accused “were trying to take advantage of Mr. Venstein” when he was at the top, “then benefited from accusing him of his fall.
Outside the court, Socola’s lawyer reduced the defense of Veenstein filled with “victim defects” and “rape myths”.
In addition to the allegations related to Socola, Venstein is being withdrawn in 2006 on the charge of a criminal sex act for allegedly forcibly having sexual sex, and in 2013 a third-degree rape charge to allegedly attack the then Aspiring actor Jessica Mann.
Veenstein’s 2020 hunter sexual harassment and first-degree rape charges are still standing.
Following the statements by the lawyers, the testimony started on Wednesday with details of the high-up working days of Venstein around 2006. Witness Stephen Sterns-who was then one of Venstein’s assistants-a Hollywood kingmaker was exposed to the reputation of the manufacturer, left him to meet the log in a hotel and remembered him in the name of Her.
Published – April 24, 2025 10:22 am IST
