Harvey Weinstein accuser Mimi Haleyi says she tried to fight off disgraced mogul as he forced oral sex on her
- Movie mogul asked allegedly asked the former production assistant for massage and begged her to join him on Paris trip
- She ‘checked out’ during alleged assault and decided to ‘endure it’ as that was the ‘safest thing I could do’
At times sobbing, former production assistant Mimi Haleyi told jurors on Monday at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial how she tried to fight off the disgraced movie mogul and told him “no, no, no” while he sexually assaulted her.
“I did reject him, but he insisted,” said Haleyi, whose allegations against Weinstein led to his charges and trial. “Every time I tried to get off the bed he would push me back and hold me down.”
Haleyi testified she thought: “I’m being raped” and considered different options. “If I scream rape, will someone hear me?” she said before she “checked out.”
“I couldn’t get away from him at all, let alone get away,” Haleyi said. “I checked out and decided to endure it. That was the safest thing I could do.”
Weinstein, 67, is charged with forcibly performing oral sex on Haleyi in his New York City apartment in 2006 and raping another woman, an aspiring actress, in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013. He insists any sexual encounters were consensual.