Kaja Sokola, 39, testifed Thursday, May 8 as part of the disgraced movie mogul's retrial in New York City A former model who has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault took the stand this week at the disgraced movie mogul’s retrial in New York City — and claimed he first assaulted her when she was just a teenager.

Harvey Weinstein 's lawyers sought Friday to raise doubts about a former model's allegations in his sex crimes retrial, noting that she got a multimillion-dollar payout from civil suits against the former movie mogul.

A former model alleged in searing detail Thursday that Harvey Weinstein lured her into a hotel room and raped her, offering crucial testimony for New York prosecutors trying to reconvict him for sex crimes.