Actor faces ‘rapist’

Sopranos star Sciorra testifies against film mogul Weinstein

SOPRANOS actor Annabella Sciorra has confronted Harvey Weinstein from the witness stand, testifying that the former Hollywood studio boss overpowered and raped her.

Sciorra also told the court he made other crude overtures including sending her X-rated chocolates and showing up uninvited in his underwear with a bottle of baby oil in one hand and a video in the other.

In a quivering voice, she told the jury that the burly Weinstein barged into her apartment in the mid-1990s, threw her on a bed and forced himself on her as she tried to fight him off by kicking and punching him.

Sciorra said roughly a month later, she ran into him and confronted him about what happened before he replied: “That’s what all the nice

Catholic girls say.”

Then, she told the jury, Weinstein leaned toward her and added menacingly: “This remains between you and I.”

“I thought he was going to hit me right there,” Sciorra testified.

The 59-year-old actor became the first of Weinstein’s accusers to testify at his trial, where the movie mogul — whose downfall gave rise to the

MeToo movement — is charged with forcibly performing oral sex on former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in his New York apartment in 2006 and raping an aspiring actor in a hotel room in 2013.

Weinstein’s lawyers have sought to sow doubts about Sciorra’s story, asking whether she had once described the encounter as “awkward sex,” which she denied.

Weinstein is not charged with attacking Sciorra, whose accusations date too far back to be prosecuted.

Instead, she testified as one of four additional accusers prosecutors intend to put on the stand to show that the powerful producer had a habit of preying on women.

Weinstein has insisted any sexual encounters were consensual.