“I never thought I would see the day someone so rich and so powerful would be held accountable for their actions,” says Dawn Dunning, who testified against Weinstein at the trial. “The fact that justice was actually served is amazing”
It was one of those historical moments that has a time stamp: 11:30 a.m., February 24. And though the evidence againstcould seem quite overwhelming, none of his victims, having waited so long, took his conviction yesterday morning at all for granted. “This is the day that truth has won,” saida British actor who accused Weinstein of raping her in her London flat in the 1980s. “Courage won. Belittling women is done.
For the women who testified, it meant confronting Weinstein face-to-face in court. “We owe them an indescribable debt,” saidwho accused Weinstein of attempting to rape her during a meeting at the 1998 Venice Film Festival. The hardest part, said Dunning, “was testifying and having to tell the whole story of what happened. When I had to identify him, I stood up and I looked him in the eye and pointed him out, and he kind of smiled and waved at me like we were old friends or something.
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