Weinstein accuser says he trapped her during hotel assault

MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As Harvey Weinstein stripped off his clothes, pulled down her dress and groped her breast in a hotel bathroom in 2013, Lauren Marie Young says he also offered a chilling excuse for his lewd behavior: "This is what all actresses do to make it." Young's account of her encounter with then-one of Hollywood's most powerful movie makers came on Wednesday after she was called to the witness stand at Weinstein's New York City rape trial in a final push by prosecutors to show there was a pattern to how he preyed on women. Weinstein persisted by masturbating, despite her telling him, "'No, no, no' the whole time," Young told jurors as the the last of six women to testify at the trial about alleged series of sexual assaults by the
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