Harvey Weinstein rape accuser said she 'loved' him in email, kept relationship going for years after alleged attack: defense papers

Aug. 03--The woman who prosecutors say was raped by Harvey Weinstein in March 2013 sent him flirty and flattering emails in the months and years that followed and even said she "loved" him, according to new court documents filed Friday.

"Let's get together," the woman, identified in court papers as "CW-1," for "complaining witness" wrote to the accused serial sex abuser on July 8, 2013, some four months after she was allegedly raped by him at the Doubletree Hotel on Lexington Ave.

In August of that year, she told him it was "always good to hear your voice" and also sent him her new number.

"I love you, always do. But I hate feeling like a booty call. :)," she also wrote in 2017.

Weinstein's lawyer Ben Brafman says his client carried on a decade-long consensual relationship with his accuser. She didn't report it was a rape until after Weinstein became the centerpiece of the global #MeToo movement that erupted in late 2017, Brafman said.

Brafman is arguing that the indictment against Weinstein in Manhattan Supreme Court should be dismissed on the grounds that the Manhattan District Attorney had an obligation to show the grand jury the emails because they were exculpatory.

Several of the missives involve the woman trying to connect with Weinstein.

"I'm at work. Just had u cross my mind and thought u would send a hello. I am well," she said to Weinstein in a July 2014 exchange.

"Love to cross your mind its my favorite exercise," the married horndog producer wrote back.

"Lol that made me laugh so hard," she said.

It was "apparent" that the DA's office "already knew that CW-1 and Mr. Weinstein had a long-term, consensual, intimate relationship at the time of the alleged rape and that it continued for for four years after," Brafman's Friday filing alleged.

Weinstein is charged with predatory sex assault, rape, and criminal sex act for alleged conduct against three women.

He allegedly forced aspiring actress Lucia Evans to perform oral sex on him in 2004 and is accused of forcing oral sex on production assistant Mimi Haleyi two years later.

He faces a minimum of 10 years to life behind bars on the top count.

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