Prosecutors in Harvey Venstein retricles told a manhattan jury on Wednesday that humiliated Hollywood mogul For women’s sexual harassment and used their power and effects to “feel small”, ignoring their arguments to stop them.
73 -year -old Venstein is facing reconsideration of allegations of sexual harassment of former production assistant Mm Heli In 2006 and an aspiration actress raped Jessica Mann in 2013. A new count has also been added, alleging that she has attacked the 19 -year -old aspirational model, Kaja SocolaThe same year at a Manhattan Hotel.
In his initial statement, Assistant District Attorney Shannon Lucy, expanding the alleged attacks, said that all three women opposed Venstein’s progress. “He felt small to all these women,” Lucy said. “When he wanted something, he took it.”
Talking about the 2006 attack, Lucy told the gamblers that Venstein, “three times his size,” found Haley in an apartment, kissed and touched her, and forced oral sex despite repeated rejects.
Wenstein, dressed in a dark suit and appears in a wheelchair, sometimes looks into the jury during action. Lucy called him “one of the most powerful men in the show business”, saying that he used the situation to take advantage of weaker women in the industry.
The test is expected to run for five to six weeks and includes testimony from the accused who were central for the 2020 sentence which later overturned. The Supreme Court’s Supreme Court verdict found that the jury prejuded the inclusion of additional unwanted testimony in the original test.
Venstein’s lawyer, Arthur Edala challenged the prosecution story, stating that there would be no evidence of the jury force or lack of consent. He claimed that Mann introduced Veenstein to his mother after the alleged rape and Haley continued a “consent” relationship with him. “Not guilty, not guilty, not guilty,” Edala repeated the jury.
More than 80 women have accused Veenstein of sexual misconduct since their collapse in 2017, including Angelina Jolie, Gwneth Paltro and Ashley Jude. He has denied all the allegations and maintained the encounters.
Veenstein is currently serving a 16 -year prison sentence in California following a separate sentence for raping an European actress. Retory in New York arrives after more than seven years, when he triggers the global #MeToo movement after the decline from power.
