Ex-model testifying in Weinstein sex trial questioned about private journal

Kaja Sokola outside court. Picture: Ted Shaffrey/AP

A former teenage fashion model giving evidence in Harvey Weinstein’s retrial on sexual assault charges has been confronted in the witness box with a private journal in which defence lawyers say she wrote about people who sexually abused her.

As one of Weinstein’s lawyers began to question her about the handwritten journal, Kaja Sokola protested that it should not be discussed in open court as she had written it as part of a substance abuse treatment programme years ago.