Harvey Weinsteins lawyer asks sex assault accuser who is Paul McCartney? while needling her over A-list connections
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer needled his sexual assault accuser over her A-list connections in court Thursday — at one point asking her “Who is Paul McCartney?”Defense attorney Jennifer Bonjean grilled former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam “Mimi” Haley during her third day testifying at Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial in Manhattan, trying to paint his alleged victim as a jet-setting, money-grubbing, social climber.She asked Haley, who began her testimony on Tuesday, about her years working with British film and theater producer Michael White during which time she met a slew of celebrities including universally famous rockstars Mick Jagger and McCartney.“Who is Paul McCartney?” Bonjean asked after Haley mentioned meeting the Beatle through White.“Did you ever hold a 9-to-5 job?” she continued, to which Haley replied that she had.Bonjean also asked Haley if she had been invited on a super yacht because of White and whether she took trips to Paris, Buenos Aires, New York City, St.Tropez, to Venice, Morocco and East Hampton.“How did you manage all that wonderful travel with the financial hardships you were allegedly suffering,” Bonjean asked, before prosecutors objected and the lawyers were called to a sidebar.Eventually, Haley admitted she had some family money she inherited and “at times” had paid for her own travel.“I took odd jobs,” she said at one point.Earlier during questioning, Bonjean asked Haley why she chose to first get a civil lawyer rather than working with prosecutors in the Weinstein criminal case — which she only eventually did months later.Haley testified at Weinstein’s initial Manhattan Supreme Court trial in 2020.The guilty verdict and 23-year prison sentence conviction for the disgraced Miramax movie studio boss was overturned last year by New York’s highest court.Weinstein, 73, faces up to 25 years behind bars if convicted at the retrial on the top count.
He has maintained that he’s innocent...