'I'm being raped': Weinstein accuser details alleged assault
Source: AP
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS
NEW YORK (AP) As she tried to fight off Harvey Weinsteins advances, Mimi Haleyi told him no, no, no before he held her down on a bed and forcibly performed oral sex on her, she said in emotional testimony Monday at Weinsteins rape trial.
Haleyi, one of two women whose assault accusations led to Weinsteins trial, took the stand Monday and, at times sobbing, detailed her allegation that the disgraced movie mogul sexually assaulted her at his New York City apartment in 2006.
I did reject him, but he insisted. Every time I tried to get off the bed, he would push me back and hold me down, the former Project Runway production assistant testified, adding that she told Weinstein she was menstruating in an attempt to deter him.
Haleyi, now 42, told jurors she thought, Im being raped, and considered different options. If I scream rape, will someone hear me? she wondered.
FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2017, file photo, Mimi Haleyi appears at a news conference in New York. Haleyi is expected to appear on the witness stand Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, at Weinstein's New York City trial. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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Botany
(70,627 posts)If he is guilty.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)and it's amazing just how sanitized that book is from all the creepy rapy shit weinstein did, in light of everything now. the book came out in 2004, when I'm sure the old bastard had complete control of what was printed about him.
Evolve Dammit
(16,789 posts)And lose the walker (like Cosby's cane). You're not that frail, you're just wimpering now that your ass has been caught and you're being prosecuted.
IronLionZion
(45,594 posts)Too soon?
mpcamb
(2,878 posts)backtoblue
(11,347 posts)I can speak for alot of people when I add, "If I tell, will anyone believe me?"
Thank you for speaking Ms. Haleyi.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)This story was on a French TV channel while cooking dinner . I was somsickened by the details of this rape I had to stop for a moment what I was doing
Read but trigger warning her testimony
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Through tears, Haleyi recounted how every time she tried to get up off the bed, he would push back down and hold me down.
He pushed me down. He held me down. He held my arms to stay like that. I said, No, no.
At that point, Haleyi said, she started to realize what was actually happening I was being raped.
I couldnt even get away from him at all let alone out of the apartment. Ultimately, after a while I just checked out, she said. He held me down on the bed and he forced himself on me orally. I was on my period. I had a tampon in there. I was mortified
He forced himself on me orally, he put his mouth on my vagina.
Haleyi added, I kept trying to tell him, No, dont go there and dont do that. Im on my period. I have a tampon in. It was as if he didnt believe me and he said something like, Where is it, then? like that and he literally pulled my tampon out.
She said she was in so much shock and just checked out
https://pagesix.com/2020/01/27/harvey-weinstein-accuser-mimi-haleyi-testified-he-ripped-out-tampon-forcibly-performed-oral-sex-on-her/