Aspiring actresses Tarale Wulff and Dawn Dunning will take the witness stand at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial today to testify about his ‘prior bad acts’, but he doesn’t face charges from their allegations.
Sciorra’s, left and inset in The Sopranos, rape allegation is too old to be charged as a separate crime, but prosecutors hope it will show that Weinstein, right, was a repeat sexual predator.
Lawyers will make their opening statements to a jury of seven men and five women on Wednesday in the trial of Weinstein. He has pleaded not guilty to assaulting two women in New York.
Weinstein, main, has pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting two women, and faces life in prison if convicted on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault. Hadid is inset.
Jury selection is scheduled to start this week two years after the allegations first came to widespread public attention and catalyzed the #MeToo movement.
Weinstein, 67, is currently charged with five sexual crimes in New York. He will go on trial in January after pleading not guilty on all counts but prosecutors in L.A. are weighing eight different cases.
Following a two year legal fight, the proposed global legal settlement has obtained preliminary approval from all the major parties involved, including the board of Weinstein’s now-bankrupt film studio.
Zoe Stuckless is seen confronting Harvey Weinstein for showing up at Actor’s Hour in New York’s Downtime bar Wednesday where he was ‘allowed to laugh and clap and drink and flirt’.
Anthony Bourdain was dating Asia Argento at the time, and the actress had detailed in graphic description how she was allegedly raped by Harvey Weinstein at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
Rowena Chiu had starting working with Harvey Weinstein after completing a degree in English literature at Oxford University. She alleged Weinstein tried to rape her in Venice in 1998.