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		</div><p>A former model has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager.</p>
<p>Kaja Sokola alleges she was an aspiring actress when she arrived in the US from Poland in 2002 and met with Weinstein.</p>
<p>He is said to have offered to take her to lunch but his driver instead drove the pair to Weinstein’s apartment where he allegedly “terrified and sexually abused her.”</p>
<p>Ms Sakola had remained anonymous in an earlier class action lawsuit against the disgraced producer but has now removed herself from that group and gone public.</p>
<p>She said she was motivated by news Weinstein and his former film studio had reached a $25m settlement with more than two dozen women who claimed he sexually harassed them.</p>
<p>In a statement, Ms Sokola said: <em>“I cannot accept the proposed ‘global settlement’ as fair or just.</em></p>
<p><em>“There is no accountability for the perpetrators, insufficient compensation for all of the victims, and millions of dollars going to people that I believe enabled Weinstein.”</em></p>
<p>Ms Sakola is suing Weinstein, once among Hollywood’s most powerful figures before his downfall in October 2017, for battery for the alleged 2002 incident.</p>
<p>She has brought the claim under a newly enacted New York law extending the amount of time a victim has to bring action.</p>
<p>The 33-year-old, who said she works as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, is also suing Bob Weinstein, Miramax and Disney for allegedly enabling Harvey Weinstein.</p>
<p>Ms Sakola said: <em>“As part of my professional education and experience, I have learned that some wounds never fully heal. Memories of sexual abuse are like a scar after a burn, but because the injury is to the psyche, it is invisible to everyone except the victim.</em></p>
<p><em>“By revealing my own scar, I hope to encourage others to speak up about their own experiences.”</em></p>
<p>She added:<em> “I know that this lawsuit cannot erase the pain that I have been living with for 17 years. But I do hope to achieve at least some measure of justice that has still been denied to Harvey Weinstein’s many victims.”</em></p>
<p>Weinstein, who vehemently denied all allegations of non-consensual sex, stands accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women, including A-list Hollywood actresses.</p>
<p>He is due to stand trial on charges of rape and sexual assault on January 6.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, the 67-year-old was accused of trying to “gaslight society” after he called himself “the forgotten man” who should be remembered as a pioneer of female storytelling.</p>
<p>Weinstein was also accused of faking injuries after he was pictured arriving at court looking bedraggled in an ill-fitting suit and leaning on a walking frame with tennis balls attached to the legs.</p>
<p>His lawyers are yet to respond to Ms Sakola’s claim.</p>
<p>When she initially came forward in late 2018, Weinstein’s then lawyer Benjamin Brafman described the allegations as “preposterous”.</p>
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