{"id":205443,"date":"2025-12-26T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/205443\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:30:08","slug":"harvey-weinstein-accuser-kaja-sokola-is-being-sued-for-defamation-the-plaintiff-her-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/205443\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein accuser Kaja Sokola is being sued for defamation. The plaintiff: Her sister"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Two sisters testified at Harvey Weinstein\u2019s most recent criminal trial. Kaja Sokola<\/a> accused the disgraced movie mogul of sexual assault. Ewa Sokola was called as a witness to boost her claims, but ultimately ended up helping the defense.<\/p>\n

Now, Ewa Sokola is suing Kaja for defamation, alleging in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court that the psychotherapist and ex-model\u2019s public remarks amount to libel and are damaging Ewa\u2019s reputation and business as a cardiologist in Poland.<\/p>\n

Ewa Sokola says that her younger sister has made false statements subjecting her to public hatred, shame, contempt, ridicule, ostracism and disgrace in Wroc\u0142aw, Poland. She seeks unspecified damages.<\/p>\n

Messages seeking comment were left for Kaja Sokola\u2019s lawyers and spokesperson on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n

In a split verdict in June, Weinstein was convicted of forcibly performing oral sex on film and television production assistant and producer Miriam Haley<\/a> and acquitted on a charge involving Kaja Sokola\u2019s allegations of similar conduct. Both women said they were assaulted in 2006.<\/p>\n

The judge declared a mistrial on the final charge, alleging Weinstein raped former actor Jessica Mann, after the jury foreperson declined to deliberate further.<\/p>\n

Weinstein has not yet been sentenced as a judge weighs a defense request to throw out the verdict after two jurors told Weinstein\u2019s lawyers that other jurors had bullied them<\/a> into convicting him. Judge Curtis Farber is expected to rule on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n

Kaja Sokola has said her sister\u2019s testimony at Weinstein’s state court trial in New York earlier this year undermined her own testimony that he forced oral sex at a Manhattan hotel just before her 20th birthday.<\/p>\n

Weinstein had arranged for Kaja Sokola to be an extra for a day in the film \u201cThe Nanny Diaries,\u201d and separately agreed to meet her and Ewa. After they chatted, she testified, Weinstein told her he had a script to show her in his hotel room, and she went up with him. There, she said, Weinstein pushed her onto a bed and assaulted her.<\/p>\n

After the trial, Kaja Sokola criticized her sister’s testimony, saying that though she was called as a prosecution witness, she ended up serving Weinstein’s cause by providing his lawyers with a journal in which she wrote about the men who had sexually assaulted her in her life but did not include Weinstein.<\/p>\n

According to the lawsuit, Kaja Sokola repeatedly characterized her sister’s testimony as a personal \u201cbetrayal” and falsely accused her of omitting journals in which she described what happened with Weinstein.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit also said Kaja Sokola had falsely accused Ewa Sokola of homicide, theft, falsification of medical records, sexual impropriety and immoral conduct, and of colluding with Weinstein’s defense team.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit said Kaja Sokola’s false claims have cost Ewa Sokola referrals and led to a reduction in patients and employees for her medical practice while damaging her professional reputation and her standing within the medical community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Two sisters testified at Harvey Weinstein\u2019s most recent criminal trial. Kaja Sokola accused the disgraced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[115123,127,23318,782,146,122,85,2036,46,4675,4669,7509,4671,917],"class_list":["post-205443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-115123","tag-article","tag-assault","tag-courts","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-indictments","tag-israel","tag-lawsuits","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-sexual-assault","tag-trials","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}