A judge decided Tuesday that Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers will be able to discuss alleged “loving” emails some of the movie producer’s accusers sent him
Harvey Weinstein using a walker to exit the courthouse. Photo: JEENAH MOON/Getty Images . The lawyers will use these emails during opening statements of Weinstein’s rape and sexual-assault trial to claim that these women were in consensual relationships with Weinstein. Weinstein’s defense team contends that these women “bragged” about sexual encounters with him.
“What we will counter with are their own words, their own words where they described loving relationships,” Cheronis told Burke. “Where they refer to him as somebody they care about both before and after these alleged sexual assaults.” Cheronis also said, “Witnesses who claimed Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted them also bragged about being involved in sexual relationships with him … they bragged about these things he allegedly ‘forced’ them to do.
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