A licensed massage therapist sat in front of a jury to recount her graphic allegations of instances in which Harvey Weinstein s.e.xually assaulted and masturbated in front of her during business appointments.
Jane Doe #3 testified that the first time she worked with Weinstein as a client, he abruptly changed his friendly demeanour during a massage, cornering her in a hotel bathroom and masturbating in front of her, groping her breasts and yelling at her, reports Variety.
“He said: ‘Look at me, tell me how big my cock is. Look at me! Look at me! Fucking look at me!'” Jane Doe #3 testified, raising her voice on the stand, as to intimate the tone in which Weinstein spoke to her.
As she started to tear up, she told the jury that she kept telling Weinstein “no” and “tried backing away from his as far as possible”. But he kept saying: “Look at my c***. Tell me how big my c*** is.”
“I was terrified,” she said. “I thought I was about to get r@ped. Jane Doe #3 is a massage therapist for high-profile individuals, working almost exclusively with a clientele of A-list celebrities.
She explained to the jury that, due to the nature of her job as a masseuse, it was typical to give a client a massage in a hotel room or in the privacy of their home where she would be isolated.
Clients would often be nearly naked, wearing only a bathrobe, upon her arrival.
In 2010, when the woman arrived at Weinstein’s hotel room at the Montage in Beverly Hills, California, nothing seemed to be “peculiar”, she said. “I’ve done plenty of massages in hotel rooms.”
She said Weinstein was “very nice” and “very friendly” at the start of the hour-long massage that he had booked. Nothing was sexual and she was “flattered” by his complimentary conversation to her massage technique.
But then, after roughly 40 minutes, he abruptly ended the massage, which caught Jane Doe #3 off-guard. She explained that she went to the hotel bathroom to wash her hands, planning to pack up her massage table and leave.
Source: IOL
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