Jury selection begins in Los Angeles for the sexual assault trial of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
The charges in the Los Angeles indictment allege that Weinstein raped a woman between September 2004 and September 2005 and raped another woman on two separate occasions in 2013, according to District Attorney George Gascón. They also allege that Weinstein sexually assaulted a woman in 2010 and two others in separate incidents in 2013.
All five of Weinstein's accusers are expected to testify as well as several other women whose accusations are not part of the criminal charges but who will describe Weinstein's prior bad acts. One of those prior bad act witnesses will be Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and a former actress, ABC News has confirmed.
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on Oct. 4, 2022, in Los Angeles. Harvey Weinstein was extradited from New York to Los Angeles to face sex-related charges."Like many other women, my client was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein at a purported business meeting that turned out to be a trap," Jennifer Siebel Newsom's lawyer, Beth Fegan, said in a statement to ABC News.
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