Actress Rosie Perez told a New York courtroom Friday that Annabella Sciorra told her she’d been sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein in 1994, bolstering the oldest claim against the Hollywood mogul at his rape trial. “She told me that it was in fact Harvey Weinstein that raped her,” Perez said of a 1994 phone call she had with Sciorra. I tried.’”During her testimony on Thursday, Sciorra said Weinstein violently raped her in her New York apartment in either late 1993 or early 1994. During a lengthy cross-examination, Weinstein’s defense team repeatedly attacked Sciorra for her inability to name an exact date, and implied that Sciorra lied about the rape. Months later, when Sciorra was shooting a movie in London in 1994, Perez said she heard a rumor about Weinstein harassing Sciorra overseas.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 24, 2020 22:41 UTC