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   Harvey Weinstein’s genitalia has frequently been addressed in open court   
   throughout his trial. But in the final hours of the case, the former movie   
   mogul’s abnormal testicles emerged as a key piece of evidence on which the   
   jury will have to deliberate when they determine whether he is guilty of   
   rape and sexual assault.   
      
   During the trial, prosecutors revealed to the jury that Weinstein   
   underwent surgery in 1999 for Fournier’s Gangrene, which required doctors   
   to remove some of his scrotum. “That surgery caused pretty noticeable   
   scarring … Because of an infection, his testicles were actually taken from   
   his scrotum and put into his inner thighs,” the lead prosecutor, Deputy   
   District Attorney Paul Thompson, told the jury at the beginning of the   
   trial.   
      
   Numerous women accusing Weinstein of rape and sexual assault have   
   testified about his genitalia during the lengthy trial. In October, the   
   jury was shown photos of Weinstein’s private parts, and sifted through an   
   envelope of images in a private room in the courthouse. Members of the   
   public and the media were not given access to view the photos.   
      
   Now, as deliberations have begun, the verdict on three charges, all   
   pertaining to Jane Doe #1, will largely rely on Weinstein’s genitalia.   
   (Weinstein faces seven charges in total.)   
      
   Jane Doe #1, a European actor and model, has accused Weinstein of rape and   
   sexual assault. She alleges the incident occurred in 2013 at Mr. C Beverly   
   Hills Hotel, where she was staying when she attended the L.A. Italia Film   
   Festival as a VIP guest.   
      
   The defense has said that the rape and sexual assault never happened,   
   claiming that she was never in a hotel room with Weinstein on the night of   
   the alleged incident.   
      
   On Friday, the biggest focus of the prosecution’s final rebuttal was Jane   
   Doe #1, whose allegations carry the most charges — and a key element of   
   the prosecutor’s argument was that Jane Doe #1 wouldn’t have been able to   
   describe Weinstein’s genitalia had she not been sexually assaulted by him.   
      
   During her testimony, Jane Doe #1 spoke at length about Weinstein’s   
   testicles. On the stand, she tearfully told the jury that Weinstein   
   demanded she “suck his balls,” or forced her to perform oral sex on him.   
   Rehashing the graphic details, she said, “He forced me to do what he   
   asked… I was crying, choking.” But during cross-examination, one of   
   Weinstein’s attorneys, Alan Jackson, asked Jane Doe #1 how Weinstein’s   
   “balls were in your mouth,” if he does not have testicles. “The reason   
   that you changed your story is because you realized at some point that Mr.   
   Weinstein does not have testicles in his scrotum,” Jackson said to Jane   
   Doe #1 during her three-day testimony. She disagreed and said she never   
   changed her story, and always told detectives that Weinstein had abnormal   
   testicles. “I recall that he didn’t have one,” she said. “It was like   
   empty skin.”   
      
   On Friday, Thompson addressed the jury. “You saw those photographs … I’m   
   sure if we asked you, it would be hard to describe … It’s hard to describe   
   if you’re not a medical professional.”   
      
   Thompson argued that while Jane Doe #1’s description may have not been   
   perfectly accurate, the only way she would have any information about   
   Weinstein’s testicles is if she was sexually assaulted.   
      
   “Jane Doe #1 is able to describe Mr. Weinstein’s anatomy,” Thompson said.   
   “She can do that because he assaulted her. There’s no other explanation   
   for that.”   
      
   Jane Doe #1 is not the only woman who described Weinstein’s genitalia   
   during the trial.   
      
   Jane Doe #2, who testified that Weinstein groped her and masturbated in   
   front of her in 2013 said, “His penis was disgusting. It looked like it   
   had been chopped off and sewn back on, like something wasn’t right about   
   it.”   
      
   Jane Doe #4, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, said, “I just remember being shocked   
   by everything.” The First Partner of California, who is married to Gov.   
   Gavin Newsom, has accused Weinstein of raping her in 2005 when she was an   
   up-and-coming actor and filmmaker. She described Weinstein’s body as   
   having, “Lots of bruises, markings, yellow and green, lots of stretch   
   marks on his belly, very not physically fit at all.” She said his penis   
   appeared to be “kind of fish-like,” and described “something was distorted   
   in the testicles … Lots of skin, lots of skin down there.”   
      
   Pertaining to Jane Doe #1, Weinstein’s attorneys say she was never in the   
   hotel room because a fire alarm went off in the hotel around the time of   
   the alleged assault, but Jane Doe #1 never heard the alarm. Prosecutors   
   rebutted that it’s possible that she didn’t hear the fire alarm in her   
   room, or that the alarm could have gone off before she had returned to the   
   hotel that night, after attending the film festival where she briefly met   
   Weinstein. During the defense’s closing arguments, Weinstein’s attorney,   
   Jackson, alleged that Jane Doe #1 was actually in the hotel room of the   
   festival organizer, Pascal Vicedomini, with whom, Jackson claimed, she was   
   having a sexual relationship.   
      
   In response to that accusation, Thompson brought up emails between   
   Weinstein and Vicedomini as evidence for the jury. In one email,   
   Vicedomini wrote to Weinstein, “You are my hero and my best friend in the   
   industry … I would always lie to please you.”   
      
   Additionally, the prosecutor brought up more emails and documents between   
   Weinstein and various staff members and friends, in an effort to showcase   
   Weinstein’s close relationships and the power he held in social circles   
   and professional spaces. One email between Weinstein and Giuseppe   
   Cipriani, the owner of Mr. C Hotel, showed Weinstein writing, “You guys   
   have been amazing to me,” referencing the staff at the hotel where Jane   
   Doe #1 alleges she was raped. At another instance, Thompson noted that   
   Weinstein’s former driver who testified in the trial admitted on the stand   
   that Weinstein was paying for his attorney.   
      
   https://variety.com/2022/film/news/harvey-weinstein-abnormal-testicles-   
   rape-trial-1235448425/   
      
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