Jane Doe No. 1 — a model and actor then living in Rome — has testified about being attacked by Weinstein in 2013, saying “I wanted to die. It was disgusting. It was humiliating,” and that she subsequently developed a drinking problem
two instances
when the producer allegedly assaulted her at the Toronto International Film Festival. The first incident occurred in 1991, she said, when she was 24 and looking to break into the industry: She was introduced to Weinstein at a TIFF party, and they spent some time “bantering about art and film” before he suggested they take some drinks elsewhere to talk. “We were getting along really well,” Sipherd testified, adding that she agreed to go to a nearby restaurant.
Once they arrived at his room, however, he immediately detoured into the bathroom, Sipherd said. When he came out, he was naked save for an open button-down shirt and holding a hot washcloth, which he allegedly placed on her vagina after removing her skirt. “My wife loves this,” she remembers him saying. “You’re going to love this.” He then held her down and performed oral sex on her, ignoring her pleas for him to stop.
In 2008, more than a decade after the alleged rape, Sipherd was back at the Four Seasons during TIFF and saw Weinstein walking through the lobby. She said she shouted his name out of surprise. He sent his assistant over to coordinate the meeting, and Sipherd, “angry,” went up to his room to confront him. “I wanted to see him because I wanted to ask why,” she told the court.
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