Weinstein lawyer and accuser clash over her memory of alleged assault

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP)

A lawyer for Harvey Weinstein has suggested that the shifts in a massage therapist’s account of an alleged sexual assault by the former film mogul meant she had fabricated details, while she insisted that working through the trauma had drawn out more accurate memories.

Weinstein lawyer Mark Werksman pointed out differences over time in stories she told to police and prosecutors in 2019 and 2020, in her evidence to a grand jury last year, and in her words in the witness box on Wednesday, when she said Weinstein had trapped her in a bathroom, masturbated in front of her and groped her breasts after hiring her for a massage in his Beverly Hills hotel room in 2010.