Annabella sciorra
'Age of empowerment,' accusers hail Weinstein convictions
The 67-year-old was acquitted of the most serious charge of predatory sexual assault but faces a lengthy jail term.
Annabella Sciorra, best known for her role in HBO’s 'The Sopranos,' testified that Weinstein came to her New York apartment one winter night in 1993 or 1994, raped her and then forced oral sex on her.
Writer Paul Feldsher testified for the defence that actress Annabella Sciorra told him in the early 1990s that she had a sexual encounter with Weinstein but did not say she had been raped.
Weinstein (67) has pleaded not guilty to raping the aspiring actress, Jessica Mann, and to sexually assaulting another woman, Mimi Haleyi.
Mimi Haleyi began testifying in a Manhattan courtroom with Weinstein looking on from the defence table.
The 59-year-old actress claimed Weinstein raped her and then ejaculated onto her leg and nightgown before he started to perform oral sex on her without her consent.
Annabella Sciorra, best known for her role as Gloria Trillo in American mob drama 'The Sopranos,' alleges that Weinstein raped her in her New York apartment on an unknown date sometime in the winter of 1993-94.
The disgraced movie mogul faces life in prison if convicted in a New York state court of predatory sexual assault charges, in a trial expected to last six weeks.
Annabella Sciorra helped trigger the #MeToo movement in October 2017 when she told The New Yorker magazine that Weinstein raped her at her home in Manhattan in 1993.
Weinstein, 67, entered his plea in a New York state court in Manhattan, where his trial was delayed by four months, to 6 January 2020. He had faced a 9 September trial date.
The 57-year-old actress has opened up about her horrific experience she suffered at the hands of the disgraced movie mogul.