Anita Chabria: The bravery of Jennifer Siebel Newsom facing Harvey Weinstein — and facing us all
by Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times
Nov 16, 2022
3 minutes
Jennifer Siebel Newsom did not have to testify against Harvey Weinstein. But Monday, she did — reminding us that sexual assault carries its own kind of life sentence for victims.
Siebel Newsom took the stand in the downtown Los Angeles courtroom where Weinstein faces charges of multiple sex crimes only a few minutes before court stopped for a lunch break. But in those few minutes, her pain and humiliation seeped out of a wound still open, 17 years after it was inflicted.
Asked if she she said, that left her frozen and "trying to process what happened."
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