Weinstein accuser tearfully recalls NYC hotel room rape — and the disgusting discovery she made after alleged attack: ‘It basically meant ‘dead penis''

Yahoo

20-05-2025

A former actress who accused Harvey Weinstein of raping her in a New York City hotel cried on the witness stand Monday as she recalled the alleged decade-old attack — and the disgusting discovery she found in the trash afterward.
Jessica Mann, 38, returned to Manhattan Supreme Court, five years after she delivered graphic testimony at the disgraced Hollywood producer's first sex crimes trial.
The ex-actress' answers at the ongoing retrial were broken by sobs as she detailed Weinstein forcing her to have sex at the Doubletree Hotel in Midtown on March 18, 2013.
After the alleged rape, Mann said she she found an erection-inducing drug needle apparently used by Weinstein in the garbage can with a puzzling label — 'necro-something' — that she later Googled, yielding a horrific answer.
'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 remembered asking herself. 'It was scary.'
Mann testified she later continued a consensual relationship with Weinstein — whom she referred to as 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because sometimes he validated me so much.'
'Everyone said going to Hollywood was the devil's playground,' she testified. 'He told me I was beautiful and encouraged me and that meant a lot to me.'
But at other times, the powerful producer showed his dark side, Mann said.
'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.'
Weinstein, 73, wearing a filthy charcoal suit, sat in a wheelchair as Mann haltingly told Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo that she feared no one would believe her.
She said she was anxious about Weinstein's relationship with powerful people, such as former President Bill Clinton.
'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.'
Mann's testimony largely rehashed her last stint on the witness stand in 2020, when she recounted that Weinstein's genitalia were so 'deformed' she pitied him.
Jurors eventually found Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape for an attack on Mann, but found him not guilty of first-degree rape.
Weinstein's conviction was overturned last year, leading to the retrial.
Former teen model Kaja Sokola and former TV production assistant Miriam 'Mimi' Haley have both also testified in the trial that Weinstein raped them.
He has pleaded not guilty and faces up to 25 years behind bars if convicted.