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    Harvey Weinstein faces sexual assault and rape charges as LA trial begins

    LOS ANGELES — The worlds of politics and Hollywood collided Monday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom as the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein began. A prosecutor from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office launched into an opening statement with an account of how Weinstein allegedly raped Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife, who worked as an actress in the early 2000s. ...
    by James Queally, Los Angeles Times Oct 24, 2022 5 minutes
    Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, on Oct. 4, 2022.

    LOS ANGELES — The worlds of politics and Hollywood collided Monday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom as the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein began.

    A prosecutor from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office launched into an opening statement with an account of how Weinstein allegedly raped Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife, who worked as an actress in the early 2000s.

    Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson showed jurors photos of Siebel Newsom and the governor to contrast her potent role today in California politics to the “powerless actor trying to make her way in Hollywood” he said she was at the time of the alleged assault in a Beverly Hills hotel room.

    Over a blistering 90 minutes, Thompson also showed pictures of other young women who accuse Weinstein of assaulting them, while

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