Weinstein Was Jekyll, Hyde, Then Rapist, Witness Tells Jury
- Starmaker groomed her, attacked her, Jessica Mann testifies
- Raised evangelical on a farm, she tells of confounding journey
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A onetime aspiring actor raised as an evangelical told jurors in the Harvey Weinstein trial that the movie mogul switched between cajoling and raging at her “like Jekyll and Hyde” as her dreams of stardom ended in a series of increasingly violent sexual encounters.
Jessica Mann, the second of two women Weinstein is accused of assaulting, took the witness stand Friday to recount how he turned on her after she agreed to a consensual relationship.