Ep. 7 | I Come From a Land Down Under

The Harvey Weinstein Trial: Unfiltered

The Unreported Story Society

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4.2 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In today's testimony we heard from several witnesses who were brought to bolster the claims of the testimony from Dawn Dunning and Tarale Wulff. We first heard from Australian Lincoln Davies, the former fiance of Dawn Dunning. Davies explains how they were invited to lavish parties through Dunning's connection to Weinstein. He also recounts Dunning's shock when Weinstein allegedly asked her for a threesome. However his testimony came under attack when he said he couldn't remember the year or even the time of the year of the alleged incident. He further revealed that she had not told him about the very serious sexual assault that she says had occurred before this meeting where she alleges Harvey Weinstein put his hand violently up her skirt - in a hotel suite in Manhattan.

Then we heard from Mauricio Ferrigno who was the manager of Cipriani's Upstairs lounge where Tarale Wulff was a cocktail waitress. She says she was led upstairs by Weinstein in the restaurant to a darkened terrace strewn with building materials where she alleges he assaulted her. He said he saw them on the stairs but saw nothing untoward.

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Phela McElier and I'm Anne McLean and welcome to day seven of the Harvey Weinstein
0:04.4	trial unfiltered the daily podcast where we reenact verbatim testimony from the trial of
0:09.7	Harvey Weinstein.
0:10.9	So an interesting day to day, film.
0:12.9	Yes, the prosecution brought a couple of witnesses who they thought would bolster the allegations.
0:18.3	We heard yesterday of Tarale Wolf and Dawn Dunning.
0:21.4	They both alleged they were sexually assaulted by Weinstein.
0:24.4	Don Dunning also claims she was later raped by Weinstein. I don't think the
0:29.0	prosecution got what they were hoping from either witness today today I think they just didn't deliver
0:35.8	what they really need it. What they were hoping for. So interestingly
0:38.7	Weinstein is not being charged with assaulting either of the women they are what what's known as these Molano witnesses who are there to show evidence of prior bad acts and predatory assault.
0:50.0	The jury has to decide whether he sexually assaulted two women, raping one of them.
0:53.8	Four other women are testifying that he attacked them.
0:56.2	Including Tarale Wolf and Don Dunning, they're one of these four other women.
1:00.5	And the jury is just listening to these counts, it's actually not deciding on his guilt or innocence
1:05.4	They are all part of this predatory charge so it's a it's a it's a it's a strange
1:13.0	Situation. Yeah, we're gonna talk I, I think we're going to spend some more time talking about that,
1:15.7	not today, but I think it's an interesting legal situation.
1:20.5	I mean, funny, I talked to somebody about it today and they were basically saying it's, you know, when you think about it, if you were in charge with murder and you were in a court, they won't allow anything we brought in about, you know, prior, prior assaults that you might have had, you know, because it would prejudice the jury, however, that seems to have been suspended in this case.
1:39.0	But we're going to speak probably to a legal expert on that, but I think it is an interesting one, and I think that actually this Molino rule looks like it goes back to the early part of the 1900s.
1:48.0	So, but we're going to dig into that.
1:50.0	So first today we heard from Lincoln Davies, the former fiance of aspiring actress Dawn Dunning.
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