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Weinstein has maintained his innocence.
He always wanted to film me.
I never gave him permission.
He would say, Do you like my big, fat, Jewish dick?
claimed Mann, 34.
The first time I saw him fully naked, she said, I thought he was deformed and intersex.
He has an extreme scarring that I didnt know, maybe [he] was a burn victim … As Mann claimed that he had deformed genitals, Weinstein dropped his head.
He also peed on me once, she also said of Weinstein, who is 67.
Prosecutor Joan Illuzzi asked Mann to describe Weinsteins hygiene.
It was very bad, she said.
He smelled like shit excuse me, sorry, like poop.
He just was dirty.
Mann entered the courtroom at 10:06 a.m. Weinstein eyed her as she walked to the witness stand.
Illuzzis initial questioning was clearly meant to establish both Manns naivete and vulnerability.
It was a lot of cows, it smelled like poop, she said.
There wasnt a lot of culture.
It was extremely religious, Evangelical.
Mann moved to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming an actress at age 25.
Later that evening, Weinstein found Mann and got her phone number.
Someone reached out and he took her to Book Soup, a bookstore on Sunset Boulevard.
He wanted to give me some books on the film industry.
They met there and he bought her four books and one was on Alfred Hitchcock, she said.
She described him as normal and he was very normal and very engaging.
The staff brought everything upstairs, but he was not interested in finishing our food.
I was hungry, she said.
I was like no, thats okay.
At that point, he had his shirt off and he had lotion.
He gave us criticism on both our images.
He said that I needed to clear my skin up.
He told Talita she needed to lose weight.
He goes, You guys are perfect for this film that Im producing.
Its a vampire film, and you both made perfect leads.
The bar was closing and he urged them to join him upstairs.
Mann and her friend are sitting on the sofa and he walked back into his room, she said.
He called my name, she said, crying.
Talita urged her to see what Weinstein wanted.
I leaned in and I said, What do you want?
The more I fought, the angrier he got, she alleged.
Weinstein then said, Let me do something for you.
Im not letting you leave until I do something for you.
He wouldnt tell me, she claimed.
He told me to sit on the bed, and thats when he went down on me.
I started to fake an orgasm to get out of it, she said.
He asked me how it was, if I liked it.
I said, We just gotta go and um, we left.
I made the decision to be in a relationship with him, she later said.
And part of that was because I was sexual with very few people.
Mann said she was worried about breaking off a relationship with him.
Mann was staying with her friend at this hotel.
When Mann got downstairs, Weinstein was checking into the hotel.
She confronted him to ask what he was doing.
After Weinstein was checked in, he put his arm on her and started leading her upstairs.
They started to argue in his room.
He demanded that Mann get undressed.
Mann tried to leave twice but he blocked the door, she alleged.
After the alleged rape, Mann said she went to the bathroom.
I was in shock over that.
Asked whether Weinstein used a condom, Mann said, No.
She was asked about the needle.
They walked downstairs shortly thereafter.
She did not tell her friend or Talita what allegedly had happened.
At breakfast, Weinstein mentioned a movie premiere; Talita and her friend urged Mann to stay another day.
They went to the premiere.
He wanted me to have tea with him and his daughter right after, she said.
I did not do that.
As Mann testified, several people in the courtroom rows reserved for Weinsteins team laughed.
She was in a relationship with a pretty well known actor, and had been avoiding Weinstein.
She thought she had to tell him about her relationship.
I find that disrespectful, she said.
Since I was dating an actor, I was particularly concerned about the actor.
And I want to get married.
Weinstein demanded to know who her boyfriend was.
I said, Im not going to tell you.
He pressed Mann: Was it a banker?
Was it an investment guy?
A Wall Street guy?
He goes, is it an actor?
And I looked down … didnt say anything … and he knew, she said.
You owe me one more time!
As Mann recalled this, she sobbed.
And I said, No, kindly, no!
Only the middle scratch had dots of blood that had come up, but there were three red marks.
And it hurt and stung, like a paper cut, but deeper.
Weinstein pulled her by the ankles and put his mouth on her vagina.
He then penetrated her, Mann alleged.
I just remember looking at the TV, and staring at it, and then it went black.
I dont know if I passed out, she said.
Next, she said she was on her knees, and hes shoving his penis in my mouth.
Weinstein then climaxed, she said, and came in her mouth without her permission.
And then he called me and I was scared, she said.
you might be my, what do they call it?
And then he would want me to answer him that were friends.
Right yes, were friends.
Yes, were friends … she said.
Yeah, perfect, he groused.
