They met at a party in Los Angeles. Then, Annabella Sciorra said on the witness stand on Thursday, Harvey Weinstein raped her. Fighting back tears, Ms. Sciorra testified in excruciating detail to a rapt courtroom about the night she said she was attacked. After shoving his way into her Manhattan apartment, she said, Mr. Weinstein took her to a bedroom, forced her onto the bed and, as she sought to fight him off, sexually assaulted her. “I was trying to get him off me,” Ms. Sciorra told the jury.

Source: New York Times January 23, 2020 14:52 UTC