A massage therapist has taken the stand in the Harvey Weinstein trial, detailing how he sexually assaulted her while masturbating during an appointment.
She said that he cornered her in the bathroom of a Beverly Hills hotel after a massage, pushed her against a wall and groped her chest as he performed a sex act on himself more than 12 years ago.
“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 cock. Tell me how big my cock is.”
The massage therapist said she was “shocked,” telling jurors that she told Weinstein that what he was doing was “not appropriate” and asked him to go back into the other room and “get your clothes on.”
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.
As he was masturbating, Weinstein started walking towards her in a “very assertive manner.” With one hand on his penis, he put his other hand underneath her tank top and grabbed her breasts. She said it was so aggressive, it left a red mark on her chest.
Weinstein told her afterward, “Now I know I can trust you. We’re close friends,” she testified, saying that he told her he wanted to help her get a deal to write a book about massage.
She said Weinstein was “very nice” and “very friendly” at the start of the hourlong massage that he had booked. Nothing was sexual in nature 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 then went to the hotel bathroom to wash her hands, planning to pack up her massage table and leave. It was then, she says, that Weinstein barged into the bathroom and attacked her.
Weinstein, 70, is charged with sexual battery by restraint involving that woman.
Weinstein was indicted on 11 charges — including forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by a foreign object and sexual battery by restraint — involving five women.
When the prosecutor, deputy D.A. Marlene Martinez, asked Jane Doe #3 if she tried to move away and escape Weinstein, she explained, “There was no physical way to get around him. It wasn’t possible because Harvey is so big.”
