Mel Gibson will no longer testify against Harvey Weinstein in sexual assault trial

Mel Gibson will no longer take the stand in disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial in Los Angeles.

Despite a judge ruling that Mel Gibson can testify in Harvey Weinstein’s trial, the actor will not be taking the stand.

Prosecutors revealed Gibson would not be testifying in the case, and were not able to provide any further explanation as to why, according to Variety.

The Oscar winner’s rep confirmed to Fox News that Gibson “was not asked to testify.”

One of Weinstein's accusers had disclosed an alleged assault to Mel Gibson. Picture: AFP.

In October, Judge Lisa B. Lench ruled that Gibson could testify about what he learned from one of Weinstein’s accusers.

The judge ruled that Gibson could take the stand in support of his masseuse and friend, who will be known as Jane Doe #3 at the trial.

On November 2, Jane Doe #3 testified in a Los Angeles courtroom and claimed that she first told Gibson she had been sexually assaulted by Weinstein.

Crying on the stand, the woman, a massage therapist with famous clients, said after giving Weinstein a massage at his Beverly Hills hotel in 2010, he followed her into the bathroom while she was washing her hands and began masturbating in front of her.

The woman said she asked him what he was doing, telling him it was inappropriate and to stop, but he then pushed her against a wall and grabbed her breasts, she added.

The woman claims Weinstein, who was one of her masseuse clients, masturbated in front of her and groped her. Picture: AFP.

“I was terrified. I thought I was about to get raped,” she testified. She said he later exposed himself after she reluctantly agreed to massage him again, and on a third visit, masturbated in front of her.

She said she only told Gibson, one of her clients, after he told her during a massage, he was thinking of working with Weinstein on a movie.

“I went into shock, and I started crying,” she said. ”He was the first person that I finally opened up with about what happened. I told him that he sexually assaulted me, but I didn’t want to get into all the details, I was embarrassed and humiliated.”

Jane Doe #3 said at the time she was afraid she would lose her “high-end clients” if she “went public that I was sexually assaulted by Weinstein, and I didn’t win.”

The disgraced movie mogul is currently serving a 23-year sentence in New York. Picture: AFP.

Years after the attacks, she said she initially only reported the first incident to police, later divulging the other incidents in interviews with authorities.

Weinstein is accused of committing sexual battery by restraint against the woman, one of 11 rape and sexual assault counts in the trial against the 70-year-old.

He is already serving a 23-year sentence in New York on a rape conviction.

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