“He has you by the fucking throat, knowing that if you don’t comply, that your career is down the drain . . . and that’s not right,” one of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers testified, at his trial in L.A.
For the past two months, the ninth floor of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, in downtown Los Angeles, has been a proving ground for some of the most heinous and high-profile accusations to emerge from the. On one end of the hall, there was Danny Masterson, the TV star and Scientologist, on trial for the rape of three women at his home in the Hollywood Hills.
In the case of Jane Doe No. 4, especially, this strains credulity. At the time of her alleged assault, she was an actress and an aspiring producer. Now, through her lawyer, she has identified herself as Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, a mother of four, and a high-profile political spouse, who has directed and produced numerous social-issue documentaries.
The next time she saw him was when he came through Los Angeles, after he’d been in England for a smoking-cessation program. She said that he called her and told her he had a gift for her, could he come by? She was living in West Hollywood at the time, and had friends over. “He showed up in a big black S.U.V. at my little home,” she said. The gift was a book about Louis B. Mayer. “He was very proud of the book. I guess maybe this was a mentor of his. And ironically, Louis B.
Afterward, because she was afraid he would try to enter her again, she touched him, and made sounds so that he would finish and she could leave. “I just wanted to get the fuck out of there,” she told the court. “Excuse my language. I’m sorry. I just wanted to get out.” She said that she grabbed her underwear; her wraparound dress was still on.
The stickiest points in her communications with Weinstein revolved around her husband, Gavin Newsom, whom she started dating a year after her encounter with Weinstein at the Peninsula, when he was the mayor of San Francisco. In 2007, it came to light that Newsom, while he was in the midst of a divorce from his first wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle, had had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife. Siebel Newsom reached out to Weinstein, seeking advice about how to deal with the media.
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