Ep. 8 | A Harmless Old Man?

The Harvey Weinstein Trial: Unfiltered

The Unreported Story Society

True Crime

4.2 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Today's testimony from Weinstein accuser Jessica Mann is very graphic and very bizarre. It was one of the strangest court testimonies we have heard in our 25 years covering court. It was full of wild allegation and graphic descriptions of body parts and personal hygiene. Mann says she met Weinstein in 2012 or 2013 when she was an aspiring actress. Mann's relationship with Weinstein was revealed to be complicated and was often consensual according to Mann. After the alleged rape, she went on to date Weinstein and according to Mann, he would call her whenever he "needed a fix." When Mann recounts the alleged rape, she goes into graphic detail, at one point even says she thought at one point that Weinstein lacked proper male genitalia or was intersex. Mann also testified that her relationship with Weinstein was mentally abusive and that “he was like Jekyll and Hyde.”

Will the jury believe that she continued to contact her rapist or will then believe the defense which is claiming she was always in a consensual relationship?

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Phila McElier and I'm Anne McElhenney and welcome to day eight, excuse me, day eight of the Harvey Weinstein trial on filter to daily podcast for we bring you the evidence and witness testimony for Baitin.
0:11.0	Just as it's spoken in the court using transcripts and voice actors we reenact each
0:15.4	day's testimony so you will hear what happened that day in court what happened today
0:20.0	film I have to say this was by far and away the craziest day of the craziest
0:25.6	testimony that I've heard all along in fact one of the craziest testimonies I've
0:29.9	heard in my experience as a journalist. My jaw was literally hitting the ground during the
0:35.4	evidence so we need to let you know that today's podcast will contain will be rather
0:41.5	bizarre and rather graphic so be aware of that.
0:45.0	Let me just say that I never thought that the culmination of my I've
0:49.3	interviewed prime ministers I've covered peace processes I've I've interviewed people up mountains in Uzbekistan
0:55.9	but I never thought that the culmination of my 25 years in journalism would end with me
1:01.2	wondering if Harvey Weinstein has testicles or indeed if he has a vagina.
1:09.0	So that was the big question that came out of the...
1:11.6	Take a lot of the journalists there today actually were thinking the same thing with a lot of
1:14.3	jaw-dropping stuff going on, a lot of people kind of looking at each other, a lot of journalists
1:17.8	in my row I wasn't sitting beside film, kind of looking at each other going, you know, kind of extremely
1:25.0	extremely shocked and skeptical and like, you know, did I just hear what I think I just
1:29.5	heard in an open court room, you know, and anyway, so it's kind of, as we said, a bit of a warning.
1:35.2	It was one jaw-dropping bit after another and you know, I found it particularly stressful because I was really well positioned I was
1:45.5	where I was was really well positioned to see the witness and you know not many people
1:50.4	get to see that because lawyers are in the way and that and I was there
1:56.1	I was right in front of her and on each side of me there was two French female
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