Exclusive: She says Harvey Weinstein assaulted her. Now she sees parallels between the fallout and the Trump hush money trial
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Ambra Battilana Gutierrez says says Harvey Weinstein assaulted her. Now she sees parallels between the fallout and the Trump hush money trial.
For years, Ambra Battilana Gutierrez says she knew she was being silenced. It was 2015 when the Italian model says she was assaulted by then movie mogul Harvey Weinstein during a casting meeting. She immediately went to the police to report what happened, assuming law enforcement would help her. Nearly a decade later, she is still searching for answers – not, she says, about just her attack, but what she says are failures of the criminal justice system and how victims are treated. “I was 22 years old, in New York City, I had just got here. I had very little, a thousand dollars, in my bank account and I was assaulted by Harvey Weinstein. I reported him and then I just tried to follow the justice and what they told me to do,” Battilana Gutierrez told CNN in a recent interview. “Now, I know there were so many people against me,” she says. The alleged efforts to silence her have come into clearer focus for Battilana Gutierrez this month – and not from anything to do with Weinstein, but from the ongoing trial of former President Donald Trump.
