“You said you draw hearts to sort of reflect your mood. Is that reflective of your mood on July the 27th, 28th and 29th?”“It may have been,” Ms. Haley said. The courtroom exchanges have been even more charged with Ms. Mann, who said that after an initial sexual assault by Mr. Weinstein in Los Angeles, she “entered into what I thought was going to be a real relationship with him,” but it was one that “was extremely degrading from that point on.”Ms. Mann, 34, who grew up in a trailer in rural Washington State and described herself as a victim of a previous sexual assault, has said there were many layers to her relationship with Mr. Weinstein, claiming that he manipulated her into sex by exerting control over her career and insinuating he could hurt her father. But Donna Rotunno, Mr. Weinstein’s lead defense lawyer, has sought to flip the allegations, claiming it was Ms. Mann who was manipulating Mr. Weinstein by engaging in sex with him, pretending to like him and sending him affectionate emails for years. “And every time you went to see him and you engaged in sexual behavior with him that was consensual, you made him think you wanted it?” Ms. Rotunno later asked.

Source: New York Times February 07, 2020 10:00 UTC