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First accuser takes the witness stand at Harvey Weinstein's #MeToo retrial

The first of three accusers expected to testify at Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial took the witness stand on Tuesday in a reprise of her testimony in his first #MeToo trial five years ago.

Her lawyer, Gloria Allred, sat behind Bragg.Haley began by speaking about her hard upbringing in Finland and Sweden, her interest in the performing arts and her entry into the movie business as an assistant to the late “Rocky Horror Picture Show” producer Michael White.Haley is on the witness stand at the start of the second week of testimony in Weinstein’s retrial. The ex-studio boss, sitting between his lawyers, looked at her as she passed by and again as she identified him from the stand.In a sign of how hard-fought Haley’s testimony is likely to be, she had barely started answering a prosecutor’s questions when Weinstein’s attorneys objected to queries about physical abuse that she says she suffered as a child. Haley began by speaking about her hard upbringing in Finland and Sweden, her interest in the performing arts and her entry into the movie business as an assistant to the late “Rocky Horror Picture Show” producer Michael White.

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