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Melinda Henneberger

Melinda Henneberger: ‘I never asked to join this club,’ says Jennifer Siebel Newsom after Weinstein sentencing

Victims of sexual violence have one hell of an ally in the newly unshackled Jennifer Siebel Newsom, feminist documentary filmmaker and wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. And in one way, I’m sorry about that.

Because as she says in the extremely raw video she released on Thursday, after the man she has accused of raping her, the predatory former king of Hollywood Harvey Weinstein, was sentenced to 16 more years in prison, “I never asked to join this club. No one did.”

Siebel Newsom was relieved of her privacy about that violation when she testified against Weinstein in November.

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