LOS ANGELES — After a month of harrowing testimony from women who say they were raped by the most powerful man in Hollywood, Los Angeles prosecutors rested their case against Harvey Weinstein on Thursday.
Weinstein, 70, has sat stoically in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom as a group of eight former models and actors cried, screamed and cursed at times while describing brutal attacks in hotel rooms in Southern California, London and Puerto Rico.
Many of the women said they felt unable to fight off the massive Weinstein in the moment and then feared reporting him to police for years because he could end their careers with a phone call.
