A former model told the New York Court that the frustrating film tycoon Mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her at the age of 16, calling it "the most horrible thing I've ever experienced."

Kaja Sokola told jurors during Weinstein's retrial that he placed his hands in her underwear and touched his genitals in a Manhattan apartment in 2002.

Sokola testified that Weinstein told her that the actor had to disband in the film business and instructed her to take off her clothes: "So I should get used to it."

She testified that she took off her top and followed him into the bathroom because she said, “I’m 16 years old, I’m alone with a man for the first time and I don’t know what to do.

"I'm scared. I'm scared of him," she said. "I've never been intimate with someone like this."

Sokola described Weinstein's eyes as "black and horror" in the so-called attack, and later told her to keep quiet, boasting that she had done a Hollywood career that could help her acting dream come true.

Sokola, the second accuser to testify at the Manhattan trial, said from the stands four years later that in 2006 - the defendant lured her into a hotel room and forced her to have oral sex.

Polish model said Weinstein invited her to read some movie scripts and pushed her onto the bed. "I kept saying, 'Please don't, please stop, I don't want this," she told the juror. "But he didn't listen."

Sokora testified that Weinstein, 73, used her body to secure her to the bed and took off her shoes, underwear and stockings. He allegedly forced his mouth to reach her vagina while masturbating.

"My soul was taken off me," Sokora said. "It felt like I was dead." At the end of the encounter about 15 minutes, Weinstein said, "You know, it's not that difficult."

The alleged encounter of Sokola in 2006 constitutes a new charge in Weinstein's criminal retrial, the only crime not included in his original trial in 2020, which was later filed by the Court of Appeal for prosecutors using "Witnesses of Molineux" or testimony not related to the alleged crime. .

Weinstein's attorney tried to raise doubts about Sokora's sexual assault allegations against him, noting that even in her own lawsuit, she had not mentioned the main claim for years. Sokola sued Weinstein a few years ago, another legal timeline for a charge that went beyond a possible criminal charge. Her lawsuit did not include anything about the 2006 attack.

Weinstein's attorney Mike Cibella pointed out when she began asking Sokola, which showed she was making the latest allegations out of financial motivation.

Jurors have heard from Miriam Haley, 48, a former project runway production assistant who testified that Weinstein gave her oral sex in July 2006. Another plaintiff, Jessica Mann, will also support the charges that Weinstein raped her in 2013.

The defendant was charged with one criminal sexual act involving Hayley's charge and one third-degree rape in Mann's case. Weinstein pleaded not guilty to all charges and denied sexual assault on anyone.

Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for a 2022 sexual assault conviction in California. However, this belief also appealed on the same grounds as the first New York case was overturned.

His defense team filed an emergency petition last month trying to transfer him from Rikers Island, as he is transported to court every day from Bellevue Hospital for chronic myeloid leukemia, diabetes and "widespread" coronary disease.

To date, Weinstein's defense team has called for crimes on three different occasions, each time denied by Chairman Justice Curtis Farber. The defendant has not been charged with first-degree rape and predatory sexual assault, which failed in 2020 due to double jeopardy's protection. The case continues.

The Associated Press contributed the report