NEW YORK (AP) -The Harvey Weinstein assistants held a list of female ‘friends of Harvey’ to invite to opportunities and sometimes considered them a special category for guest lists, a former Aid Thursday testified during the former film crimes sex crimes. “A” friend of Harvey “was a woman he would meet at occasions or parties or festivals, or somewhere,” says Elizabeth Perz. She worked for its production company from 2011 to 2015, initially as one of his executive assistants. The then married Weinstein asked his assistants to invite these women to events, Perz said. It was such a common practice that Weinstein’s subordinates had a short version: ‘Can add a FOH column, Perz advised colleagues by email while discussing the participant list for some 2013 awards season events. Jurors showed a grid of more than a dozen names, which was held in the office at Weinstein’s company. The names were demolished by geography, such as ‘La Friends’ or ‘Cannes/ECC/All Invitations’. One “La Friends” entry was Jessica Mann, one of the three women whose allegations are at the heart of the resurrection. Weinstein pleaded not guilty. The once mighty studio boss, which became an excellent target for the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct, claims he had never had sexual encounters that were not consensual. Over the past five years, he has been convicted of various sex crimes in New York and California. But he was again tried because an appeals court found that his trial in New York was infected by disadvantaged evidence and overturned the conviction. He was charged in 2013 with the rape of Mann and forced oral sex on two other women, separately in 2006. Mann, who was a hairstylist and aspiring actor when she met Weinstein in the early 2010s, is expected to testify in the coming days or week. The other accusers, Miriam Haley and Kaja Sokola, have already taken the position. During Weinstein’s hearing in 2020, Mann painted a complicated and emotional picture of a long -standing relationship that began consensually but became “humiliating” and volatile and eventually exploded to rape. Yet she continued to see him and send hot messages because she wanted him to believe that she was “not a threat,” she testified. Weinstein’s advocates at the time argued that Mann willingly had a sexual liaison with him to serve her acting ambitions. At one point during his defense’s interrogation in 2020, she began to sob so powerfully that the court ended early that day. At the Review Thursday, jurors saw messages that Perz sent to Mann in 2013 about a few Oscars-related parties. “Harvey wants to expand an invitation to you” and a friend wrote Perz. The Associated Press generally does not identify people who claim to have been sexually assaulted unless they agree to be identified, who did Sokola, Haley and Mann.
Weinsteins Office held a list of women’s friends from Harvey, an ex-Aide testified
