To the very end of Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial in Los Angeles, his defense team lawyers didn’t let up on their efforts to malign and “slut shame” Jennifer Siebel Newsom and the other accusers, arguing that these women falsely accused the producer of assault because they were embarrassed they had “transactional sex” with him to advance their careers.
During opening statements, one of Weinstein’s attorneys’ said that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife would just be “another bimbo” who slept with the former movie magnate “to get ahead” if she didn’t enjoy her current political profile. This combative strategy didn’t let up in closing arguments Thursday, according to reports, with another of Weinstein’s attorneys disdainfully characterizing the women who testified against him as “fame and fortune seekers.”
According to defense attorney Alan Jackson, Siebel Newsom in particular was “theatrical” and “overly dramatized” in her testimony about her alleged 2005 attack by Weinstein in a Beverly Hills hotel, the Daily Beast reported. California’s first partner, a documentary filmmaker and once aspiring film and TV actor, couldn’t “square away” the fact that she had consensual sex with him.
