Why Weinstein’s team risked vilifying Jennifer Siebel Newsom, other accusers in post-MeToo trial
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.
. 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.FILE – Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 4 2022. Opening statements are set to begin Monday in the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles rape and sexual assault trial.
“This defense strategy absolutely can backfire and cause a lot of anger,” said Michelle Simpson Tuegel, whose Texas-based law firm has represented sexual assault survivors in high-profile cases, such as the litigation against the U.S. Olympic Committee, Michigan State University, and USA Gymnastics over disgraced physician and convicted rapist Larry Nassar.
Weinstein, 70, is accused by four women, including Siebel Newsom, of assaulting them in Los Angeles County between 2004 and 2013. He faces two counts of forcible rape and five counts of sexual assault. Los Angeles County prosecutors say he lured the women to meetings under the guise of offering career help before assaulting them and threatening them into silence.
Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney Joshua Ritter agreed that it was “highly risky” for Weinstein’s team to aggressively cross-examine his accusers and to even disparage them, particularly in a post-#MeToo political climate when Weinstein is the “poster child” for the movement. Ritter said these questions fit a strategy based on the view that Siebel Newsom is a “liar” putting on a performance. But he agreed it can come across as “tone-deaf.” This strategy would only work if the attorney is “really good at reading the room” and is getting the sense that jurors could be sympathetic to this argument, Ritter added.
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