Harvey Weinstein’s L.A. Rape Trial Decide Tells Jury Not To Watch ‘She Stated’ Trailer – Deadline

The decide on the middle of Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles sexual assault trial concluded its first week of listening to testimony by admonishing the jury to not watch the trailer for She Stated, the upcoming Common film concerning the occasions surrounding the New York Instances’ investigation of Weinstein that led to its bombshell 2027 exposé and the beginning of the #MeToo motion.

In accordance with pool experiences, Decide Lisa Lench informed the jury to keep away from the trailer for the Maria Schrader-directed movie, which stars Carey Mulligan as Megan Towhey and Zoe Kazan as Jodi Kantor, the reporters on the middle of the investigation. The film had its world premiere earlier this month on the New York Movie Pageant and is about for a purple carpet premiere slot at AFI Fest in Hollywood on November 4.

The movie, which is choosing up Oscar buzz, shall be launched in theaters November 18.

Earlier this summer time, attorneys for Weinstein tried and didn’t get the L.A. court docket case delayed over issues that the advertising for She Stated‘s might have an affect or sway over jurors or contributors within the case.

Notably, there are a number of posters for the movie on bus stops and kiosks within the rapid space across the downtown legal courts constructing, together with one on the entrance of the doorway to the closely trafficked Metro cease.

Earlier at the moment, the prosecution’s case continued the place it left off Thursday with testimony and cross-examination of Ashley M, a former dancer who harrowingly recounted an alleged assault by Weinstein at a lodge in 2003 in Puerto Rico, after they met on the set of Miramax’s Soiled Dancing: Havana Nights.

After Ashley M concluded testimony, her fiance on the time, actor-director Charlie Matthau, took the stand, adopted by her mom Katherine Parnello. Each corroborated Ashley M’s account of the alleged assault, wherein she stated Weinstein pinned her on a mattress and masturbated on her. She stated she known as each Matthau and her mom after the encounter.

Weinstein, who has been in court docket for every session this week, faces a most sentence of greater than 100 years in jail if convicted of the grand jury costs for 4 counts of rape, 4 counts of forcible oral copulation, one depend of sexual penetration by use of power, plus one depend of sexual battery by restraint and sexual battery.

A jury of 9 males and three ladies is listening to the Los Angeles case. His attorneys have stated the sexual encounters have been consensual and even “transactional,” and that claims have been fabricated.

The trial is anticipated to final properly into December, with present California First Accomplice Jennifer Siebel Newsom among the many alleged victims anticipated to take the stand.