DISTRICT ATTORNEY ‘COUNTY OF NEW YORK New Yorke N¥.0013 ‘ar2)33ssne0 September 12, 2018 Benjamin Brafinan, Esq Brafmnan & Associates, P.C. 167 Third Avenue ‘New York, NY 10017 Re: People v. Harvey Weinstein Indictment #: 02335/2018 Dear Mr. Brafman: In connection with the above-captioned case, the People disclose the following information pursuant to our obligations under Criminal Procedure Law 240.20, as well as Brady v, Marvland, 373 US. 83 (1963), Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150(1972), and ther doctrinal progeny. The following facts relate to the allegations in Count Six ofthe above-captioned indictment, As is described more fully below, a third-party witness (the “Witness") has recently described to the People an account by the complainant in Count Six of the Indictment (the Complainant”) that is at odds withthe factual account the Complainant previously provided to our Office. The People have recently leamed that this account was earlier provided by the Witness to a detective of the [New York City Police Department (the * Detective”), who failed to inform our office of important aspects ofthe account prior tothe indictment in this case. The Witness” Account In December 2017, during an early tage ofthe investigation of this matter, the Complainant stated to the Detective and to attomeys in this Office tha, at the time she first met the defendant at a restaurant in Manhattan in the summer of 2004, she was accompanied by the Witness, who was a friend of hers.” The Detective later interviewed the Witness by telephone on February 2, 2018, and thereafter reported on various occasions to the altorneys in this Office that he had spoken by phone to the Witness (along with her attomey); that she was reluctant to cooperate; that she was Aiffcult to reach; and thatthe Detective would attempt to conduct an in-person interview. “The denis ofthe Witness andthe Detective re bein conemperaneouly provided o defense counsel in separate ete.‘On August 14, 2018, ttomeys from this Office aranged to speak by telephone to the Witness, after the Complainant informed our Office thatthe Witness recalled being told by the Complainant about the incident at issue in Count Six ofthe Indictment, In that telephone cal, and ina fllow- ‘up inperson meeting on August 29, 2018, the Witness, in the presence of her attorney, related to cur Office the following, in substance: ‘+The Witness was present with the Complainant in the summer of 2004 in the bar of a ‘Manhattan restaurant when the Complainant was frst approached by the defendant * According to the Witness, the defendant offered that evening to give the Complainant and. the Witness cash ifthey exposed their breasts to him, ‘+ Accontng to the Witness, she refused todo so, and she never saw the Complainant do so, ‘+ Acconing o the Witness, the Complainant nonetheless later told her, s they walked home from the restaurant that evening, that the Complainant had exposed her breasts to the ‘defendant ina hallway of the restaurant that evening, ‘© According to the Witness, sometime later that summer or the following summer, the ‘Complainant told the Witness that, sometime after the evening in the restaurant, the Complainant had gone to the defendant's office, where the Defendant told her, in substance that he would arrange forthe Complainant to receive an acting job if she agreed to perform oral sex upon him. According to the Witness, the Complainant told he that she thereupon performed oral sex on the defendant. ‘+ Acconting to the Witness, atthe time of this discussion about the incident, the Witness ‘and the Complainant had been drinking, and the Complainant appeared to be upset, ‘embarrassed and shaking. According to the Witness, the Witness’ memory about the ‘exchange is imperfect, but has been consistent overtime, During the discussions with the Witness and her attorney about these issues in August 2018, the Witness and her attomey told the lawyers in our Office that the Witness described the above recollections to the Detective in his eall with her and the attomey on February 2, 2018. The Witness and her attomey stated the following, in substance: ‘+The Witness related to the Detective on February 2,2018 her account of how the defendant hhad asked her and the Complainant to expose ther breasts, and how the Complainant had, later that evening, told the Witness that she had exposed her breasts tothe defendant i the restaurant, © The Witness related to the Detective on February 2, 2018 her account of how the ‘Complainant had, sometime later, stated thatthe defendant had offered her employment in exchange for oral sex, and that the Complainant thereupon had performed oral sex on the defendant.‘The Witness related to the Detective on February 2,208 that, sometime prior to that date, she had been contacted by a “fact checker’ from the New Yorker magazine to confirm the ‘Complainant's account of the sexual assault in the defendant's office in 2004, According to the Witness and her attomey, she told the Detective that, in her discussion with the ‘magazine, she decided not to relate the Complainants statements about exposing her ‘breasts, or the circumstances under which she had performed oral sex on the defendant. Instead, according to the Witness, she told the magazine that “something inappropriate happened. ‘According tothe Witness and her attomey, the response ftom the Detective on February 2, 2018 was, in substance, thatthe explanation the Witness had provided tothe magazine was ‘more consistent with the account the Complainant had eatier provided the magazine; that, going forward, “less is more;" and thatthe Witness had no obligation to cooperate, The Response tothe Wi (ur office again interviewed the Complainant, inthe presence of her attorney, on August 27, 2018, In that interview, the Complainant stated that, contrary to the Witness" account ‘The Complainant was never at any time asked to expose her breasts to the defendant, she never did so, and she never advised the Witness otherwise. After the evening atthe restaurant, the Witness was so intoxicated that she was put into a faxi home, and the Complainant never had a diseuscion with the Witness as they walked hhome together that night. ‘The Complainant never consented to any form of sex with the defendant ‘The Complainant does not recall describing to the Witness the incident that is the subject (of Count Six in the indictment. ‘With respect fo the Detective’ February 2, 2018 telephone interview of the Witness, the ‘Complainant stated that, shorly after that interview, the Detective called the Complainant's atiomey to share the’ Witness’ account of the “breast exposure’ incident and the circumstances surrounding the sexual encounter with the defendant. According to the Complainant, she denied both accounts a the time. ‘The Detective's Explanation (Our Office also conducted recent interviews of the Detective about the foregoing subjects. In those interviews, the Detective acknowledged that he spoke by phone to the Witness and her attorney on. ‘or about February 2, 2018. According to the Detective, in that discussion, the Witness provided ‘the account of the facts attributed to her above. The Detective said that he thereafter failed 10 inform our Office of the important details of that discussion, ‘The Detective also denied making, the above statements attributed to him by the Witness and her attorney.