‘Dead penis': Horror new Harvey Weinstein claims heard during retrial
An actress who accused Harvey Weinstein of raping her in a New York City hotel took to the witness stand on Monday where she revealed a shocking discovery she made in the aftermath of the alleged attack.
Jessica Mann cried on the witness stand as she recalled the horror details of the night in question.
She claimed that Weinstein forced her to have sex with him at the Doubletree Hotel in New York on March 18, 2013.
After the alleged rape had taken place, Mann recalled finding a drug needle supposedly used by Weinstein in the trash can of the hotel room with a label that said 'Necro-something' on it.
When she later Google searched in a bid to discover what the drug was, she was shocked to find its true meaning.
'I found on Google that it basically meant 'dead penis,' and you inject it and it can only be used a certain amount of times back-to-back over a certain time,' she told the jury.
'I was freaked out. Did I get exposed to something?' Mann recalled asking herself.
'It was scary.'
She went on to share that she had scared into silence about the encounter because of Weinstein's connections to powerful global figures.
'I remember imagining if I ever said anything he would call his friend and the Secret Service would come get me,' she said. 'I don't know, I had all these ideas.'
'There were times … I wouldn't want to do something and I felt like I was just being used for sex,' she testified. 'The word 'no' was a trigger for him. This other personality – I called it 'The Monster side' – would come out.'
It's not the first time Mann has testified against Weinstein, who was sat in the courtroom wearing a dark grey suit.
In 2020, the former actress took to the stand where she alleged that the disgraced movie producer's penis was 'so deformed' that she felt sorry for him.
Weinstein was eventually found guilty of third-degree rape, but was acquitted of rape in the first-degree.
But in April last year, New York's highest court overturned Weinstein's conviction on sex crime charges in a shock reversal in one of the defining cases of the #MeToo movement.
The Court of Appeals found the trial judge erred in admitting the testimony of additional women who were allegedly abused by Weinstein but who were not named in the charges brought against him, and ordered a new trial.
Last July, prosecutors in New York also announced that authorities were investigating 'additional violent sexual assaults' allegedly carried out by Weinstein that were not subject to a statute of limitations.
The retrial continues.
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