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For decades, long-suffering Chicago White Sox fans grumbled that it would take divine intervention for their baseball team to succeed. Now they have the holiest of supporters in their corner: Pope Leo XIV.Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who on Thursday was elected pope to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, has been a longtime fan of one of his two hometown baseball franchises.Initially it appeared that both Chicago teams were claiming Leo as their own, fueling a cross-town beef — until the pope’s brother weighed in.Speaking to local television station WGN, John Prevost made it abundantly clear where Leo’s sports allegiances lie.”Yeah he was never, ever a Cubs fan, so I don’t know where that came from,” John Prevost told the station, referring to the other Chicago team in Major League Baseball. “He was always a Sox fan.”Prevost also revealed some members of the family have been divided in their support.”Our mother was a Cubs fan… and our dad was a (St. Louis) Cardinals fan,” he said. “And all the aunts, our mom’s family, was from north side, so that’s why they were fans” of the Cubs, which are headquartered in that part of town.His brother? “He rooted for the White Sox.”The Sox swiftly took to X to capitalize on how the worldwide news touched their team, posting a photograph of a sign at their home stadium Rate Field, the former Comiskey Park, that reads: “HEY CHICAGO, HE’S A SOX FAN!”The team added in its post: “Well, would you look at that… Congratulations to Chicago’s own Pope Leo XIV.”Wrigley Field, longtime home of the Cubs, had posted a nearly identical message on its sign: “HEY CHICAGO, HE’S A CUBS FAN!”In one respect Leo is already following in the footsteps of papal predecessor Francis, the first Argentine pope, who was known for being a lifelong fan of his beloved local San Lorenzo football club in Buenos Aires.The White Sox won the World Series in 2005, ending an 88-year drought between their latest two Major League Baseball championship titles.

A Polish former model testifying through tears Thursday at the trial of Harvey Weinstein said the disgraced movie mogul sexually assaulted her when she was a minor at age 16.Kaja Sokola, 39, alleged in a New York criminal court circumstances surrounding an alleged assault in 2002 when she met with Weinstein in a Manhattan apartment.”I was scared, I never had been in an intimate situation before that,” Sokola said in graphic testimony, adding that as he molested her she noticed Weinstein “staring at me in the reflection” of a bathroom mirror.”I’ll never forget this,” she said.Sokola is being heard this week in criminal court for the first time, as one of three accusers in a 2020 New York case alleging Weinstein committed multiple sexual assaults. Weinstein does not face charges in the alleged 2002 incident with Sokola because it falls outside the statute of limitations.On Wednesday, Sokola testified that Weinstein also sexually assaulted her in spring 2006, in a Manhattan hotel when she was 19, claims the Miramax co-founder denies.The two other accusers — onetime production assistant Miriam Haley and then-aspiring actress Jessica Mann — testified at Weinstein’s original trial.Their accounts helped galvanize the #MeToo movement nearly a decade ago, but the case is being re-prosecuted as Weinstein faces a new trial in New York.His 2020 convictions on charges relating to Haley and Mann were overturned last year by the New York Court of Appeals, which ruled that the way witnesses were handled in the original trial was unlawful.Sokola said she was a 16-year-old aspiring actress when she met Weinstein at a dinner with other models. The film producer who is nearly 40 years her senior called her a few days later to propose a lunch meeting, she testified, but instead they arrived at an apartment and he told her to take off her clothes.”He forced me to the bathroom. I told him I didn’t want to do it, and he said I had to work on my stubbornness,” she told the court, testifying that Weinstein touched her and forced her to touch him until he ejaculated.Sokola recalled feeling “stupid, ashamed,” as the 73-year-old Weinstein, seated in a wheelchair, looked at the jury or rested his hands on his forehead.When she told Weinstein she wanted to leave, “he got upset” and said “I had to listen to him if I wanted to pursue my career in Hollywood,” added Sokola, who is now a psychotherapist.Sokola acknowledged that a year later she began losing weight and suffered from conditions including anorexia and bulimia.Asked by prosecutor Shannon Lucey why she never reported what happened, she said “I thought it was my fault.””I was a happy teenager before that,” she said. “I had boundaries, but this happened so rapidly without my permission.”Sokola said she saw Weinstein again at a lunch in 2006, and that he had lured her to a Manhattan hotel room under the pretext of showing her a script.She said Weinstein pushed her onto a bed and forced her to have sex.”I told him to stop,” he said in testimony set to continue Friday, “but he didn’t listen.”Weinstein, the producer of box-office hits “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love,” has never acknowledged wrongdoing.He is serving a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted in California of raping and assaulting a European actress more than a decade ago.

US Catholics flocked to churches across the country in a celebratory mood to mark the “excitement” of the first-ever American pontiff following Thursday’s election of Pope Leo, who worshippers hoped would bring back lapsed believers.Outside Manhattan’s imposing St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Rosaria Vigorito, 66, said she could “feel the excitement just in the few minutes I’ve been walking around.”The Miami artist said she hoped Pope Leo, a 69-year-old from Chicago who spent much of his career in Peru, would be a reformist.”I have one issue with the Catholic Church that I’m hoping they’ll correct, and that is allowing women to become priests,” she said, a crucifix around her neck.”I think Mary Magdalene was an important apostle. There was a press release issued by the Vatican years ago — they called her the apostle to the apostles.”Crowds of faithful and journalists had gathered outside the church that first opened its doors in 1879, with hundreds of worshippers filing in to pray and light candles.Oscar Salvador, 45, a laborer from Mexico, said he hoped Leo would be able to stem the tide of people leaving the church.”I believe it is a blessing for the people of America,” he said. “Hopefully, he will leave a good legacy… so that more people stay in Catholicism, since lately we have seen many people leave for other religious sects.”- ‘A bit surprised’ -In Houston, the sprawling Texas city where more than a quarter of residents reportedly identify as Catholic, Azul Montemayor said she was “a bit surprised.””I was not expecting an American to be elected and I’m just hoping that he carries on (pope) Francis’s legacy of just being more inclusive” and “doesn’t get swayed by more conservative ideology” popular now under US  President Donald Trump, said the 29-year-old examinations officer.Analyst Ciro Benitez, 41, told AFP that Leo’s multiculturalism was a sign “that we can expand to different kinds of cultures, (and) I guess, to the world.” In Washington, Peruvian diplomat Julio Aiana, 32, said “we are happy that now we have a pope who is half Peruvian” — referring to the nationality Robert Francis Prevost acquired while ministering there years before becoming pope.”I believe that the times are changing,” Aiana said.Reverend Monsignor W. Ronald Jameson, director of St. Matthews cathedral, told AFP Leo “was a friend of pope Francis — and he has the ability to really listen and reflect on what was said, and to implement those various ideas he heard.”In Los Angeles, Francis Fah attended a special mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels to offer special prayers for Leo, as the first American pope.”I think that maybe this is a sign that hopefully he can do something to get some peace and stability in the country,” she told AFP.Back in New York, worshipper Tim Anderson, 61, said Leo’s strength would lie in his languages — reportedly speaking English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese — in addition to reading Latin and German.”I’m still working on English so I think it’s gonna be interesting in this day and age where there’s so much craziness,” he laughed.”Maybe he can bring back a little bit of what I remember as a child growing up a Roman Catholic — and how full the churches were back then.”- ‘Welcoming to everybody’? -Vigorito said she wanted Leo “to bring us together.”She acknowledged the new pontiff would have a daunting task to “do as much as (he) can as a religious leader, because we deal with a lot of secular politics and issues.””I would love the new pope to help, especially with conflicts in any way possible, like in Ukraine,” she said.Salvador also voiced hope Leo “can reconcile the countries that are at war and help them to reach peace so that we do not continue on this violent path.”Having an American pope “will help bring more people to the Catholic Church, and even those that have walked away — maybe they’ll get reengaged,” added Vigorito.Annie Elm from North Carolina paid tribute to Francis, calling him “wonderful” and praising his legacy.”He loved everybody. He lived very modestly,” she said. “He was very humble.” Elm also said she hoped Leo would be “very kind and caring — welcoming to everybody.”gw-burs/sla

The US Justice Department has opened a criminal probe of New York state Attorney General Letitia James, one of President Donald Trump’s main adversaries, for alleged mortgage fraud, newspapers reported Thursday.The investigation comes after the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), a Trump appointee, alleged that James “appeared to have falsified records” related to properties in Virginia and New York to obtain better loan terms.James has denied wrongdoing and said in a statement last month when reports emerged that she may be a target that she “will not be intimidated by bullies.”The Albany Times-Union and Guardian newspapers, which first reported the probe, said the criminal investigation into James’s real estate dealings involved the Justice Department and the FBI.The Washington Post said it is believed to be the first criminal investigation by the administration involving a law enforcement official who took action against Trump.James, a Democrat, drew the wrath of Trump after leading a civil fraud case against him that saw the Republican ordered to pay a huge penalty last year.Trump was found liable of fraud by conspiring to alter his net worth to get better loan and insurance terms. Trump and his older sons were ordered to pay $454 million.Trump and his allies regularly attacked James during the trial in New York, and he has put revenge against his foes high on the agenda since returning to the White House in January.FBI and Justice Department staff involved in criminal cases against Trump have been fired, among other acts of retribution.According to the Washington Post, a grand jury has issued subpoenas related to a mortgage application in which James stated that a Virginia home would be her primary residence.James’s lawyer Abbe Lowell said in a letter to US Attorney General Pam Bondi that his client was actually helping her niece purchase the property and the documents clearly stated she would not be living in the home, the Post said.William Pulte, the head of the FHFA, had “cherry-picked” one paperwork mistake in the loan application package in seeking his criminal referral, Lowell added.

Doctors often start exams with the so-called “eyeball test” — a snap judgment about whether the patient appears older or younger than their age, which can influence key medical decisions. That intuitive assessment may soon get an AI upgrade.FaceAge, a deep learning algorithm described Thursday in The  Lancet Digital Health, converts a simple headshot into a number that more accurately reflects a person’s biological age rather than the birthday on their chart.Trained on tens of thousands of photographs, it pegged cancer patients on average as biologically five years older than healthy peers. The study’s authors say it could help doctors decide who can safely tolerate punishing treatments, and who might fare better with a gentler approach.”We hypothesize that FaceAge could be used as a biomarker in cancer care to quantify a patient’s biological age and help a doctor make these tough decisions,” said co-senior author Raymond Mak, an oncologist at Mass Brigham Health, a Harvard-affiliated health system in Boston.Consider two hypothetical patients: a spry 75‑year‑old whose biological age clocks in at 65, and a frail 60‑year‑old whose biology reads 70. Aggressive radiation might be appropriate for the former but risky for the latter. The same logic could help guide decisions about heart surgery, hip replacements or end-of-life care.  – Sharper lens on frailty -Growing evidence shows humans age at different rates, shaped by genes, stress, exercise, and habits like smoking or drinking. While pricey genetic tests can reveal how DNA wears over time, FaceAge promises insight using only a selfie.The model was trained on 58,851 portraits of presumed-healthy adults over 60, culled from public datasets. It was then tested on 6,196 cancer patients treated in the United States and the Netherlands, using photos snapped just before radiotherapy. Patients with malignancies looked on average 4.79 years older biologically than their chronological age.Among cancer patients, a higher FaceAge score strongly predicted worse survival — even after accounting for actual age, sex, and tumor type — and the hazard rose steeply for anyone whose biological reading tipped past 85.Intriguingly, FaceAge appears to weigh the signs of aging differently than humans do. For example, being gray-haired or balding matters less than subtle changes in facial muscle tone. FaceAge boosted doctors’ accuracy, too. Eight physicians were asked to examine headshots of terminal cancer patients and guess who would die within six months. Their success rate barely beat chance; with FaceAge data in hand, predictions improved sharply.The model even affirmed a favorite internet meme, estimating actor Paul Rudd’s biological age as 43 in a photo taken when he was 50.- Bias and ethics guardrails -AI tools have faced scrutiny for under‑serving non-white people. Mak said preliminary checks revealed no significant racial bias in FaceAge’s predictions, but the group is training a second‑generation model on 20,000 patients.They’re also probing how factors like makeup, cosmetic surgery or room lighting variations could fool the system.Ethics debates loom large. An AI that can read biological age from a selfie could prove a boon for clinicians, but also tempting for life insurers or employers seeking to gauge risk. “It is for sure something that needs attention, to assure that these technologies are used only in the benefit for the patient,” said Hugo Aerts, the study’s co-lead who directs MGB’s AI in medicine program. Another dilemma: What happens when the mirror talks back? Learning that your body is biologically older than you thought may spur healthy changes — or sow anxiety.The researchers are planning to open a public-facing FaceAge portal where people can upload their own pictures to enroll in a research study to further validate the algorithm. Commercial versions aimed at clinicians may follow, but only after more validation.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to revoke the legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.Solicitor General John Sauer asked for the lifting of a lower court order barring the administration from ending humanitarian protections for migrants from the four nations.In March, the administration moved to revoke the legal status of some 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who came to the United States under a “parole” program launched by former president Joe Biden.The parole program allowed entry into the United States for two years for up to 30,000 migrants per month from the four countries, which have grim human rights records.District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of Democratic president Barack Obama, blocked the administration last month from revoking the legal status of the migrants.In her order, Talwani said the administration had acted on a flawed interpretation of immigration law, with expedited removal applicable to non-citizens entering the United States illegally, but not those authorized to be in the country, such as through the parole program.Under Trump’s revocation, the immigrants would have lost their legal protection effective April 24, just 30 days after the Department of Homeland Security published its order in the Federal Register.The Trump administration asked the conservative-majority Supreme Court last week to back its bid to end temporary protected status (TPS) shielding more than 350,000 Venezuelans from deportation.Biden extended TPS for another 18 months just days before Trump returned to the White House in January.The United States grants TPS to foreign citizens who cannot safely return home because of war, natural disasters or other “extraordinary” conditions.A federal judge in California put a temporary stay in March on plans by Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem to end deportation protections for the Venezuelan nationals.Trump campaigned for the White House on a pledge to deport millions of undocumented migrants.Among other measures, he invoked an obscure wartime law to fly hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to a prison in El Salvador.

Robert Francis Prevost, the first pope from the United States, has a history of missionary work in Peru but his powerful role within the Roman Curia has also given him a keen grasp of the inner workings of the Church.The new Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago, was entrusted by his predecessor Francis to head the Dicastery for Bishops, a key Vatican department that advises the pontiff on appointments.That role allowed the mild-mannered Prevost, 69, to become known by cardinals within the Curia, the Holy See’s government, despite his decades spent outside of Rome and his native United States. “Leo XIV is a pastoral pope in his approach, attentive to the peripheries. He’s a natural candidate for the pragmatic reformist bloc,” said Francois Mabille, a researcher at the Paris-based think tank IRIS and author of a book on Vatican strategy.He called Prevost a “moderate consensus candidate” with experience in the Global South who lacks a “clear-cut ideological profile,” making him more acceptable to the Church’s conservative bloc. Francis’s confidence in Prevost to head one of the Vatican’s most important departments spoke to the younger man’s commitment to the “peripheries” — overlooked areas on the fringes of the Catholic world — together with his reputation as a bridge-builder and moderate. After Prevost was named the dicastery’s prefect, Francis elevated the Archbishop-Bishop Emeritus of Chiclayo, Peru — who has dual US and Peruvian citizenship — to cardinal.On Thursday, the current bishop of that diocese on Peru’s Pacific coast, Edinson Farfan, called the new pope “a brother who has passed through these lands”. “From the beginning when he finished his studies he came to Peru, to the mission in the north of Peru in Chulucanas, with a clear option for the poor. And from the moment he arrived in Peru he fell in love with Peru,” Farfan told a press conference. “He has given his whole life to the mission in Peru,” he said, adding that Leo XIV was “sensitive to the issue of poverty”.Prevost also becomes the first Augustinian pope. His work over two consecutive terms as the head of the mendicant order keenly focused on missionary work and charity also took him around the globe. Vatican watchers had given Prevost the highest chances among the group of US cardinals of being pope, given his pastoral bent, global view and ability to navigate the central bureaucracy.Italian newspaper La Repubblica called him “the least American of the Americans” for his soft-spoken touch. His strong grounding in canon law has also been seen as reassuring to more conservative cardinals seeking a greater focus on theology.- ‘Can’t turn back’ –  Following Francis’s death, Prevost said there was “still so much to do” in the work of the Church. “We can’t stop, we can’t turn back. We have to see how the Holy Spirit wants the Church to be today and tomorrow, because today’s world, in which the Church lives, is not the same as the world of ten or 20 years ago,” he told Vatican News last month. “The message is always the same: proclaim Jesus Christ, proclaim the Gospel, but the way to reach today’s people, young people, the poor, politicians, is different,” he said. Born on September 14, 1955 in Chicago to parents of French, Italian and Spanish descent, Prevost attended a minor seminary of the Order of St Augustine in St Louis as a novice. He graduated from Philadelphia’s Villanova University, an Augustinian institution, with a degree in mathematics. After receiving a masters degree in divinity from Chicago’s Catholic Theological Union in 1982, and a doctorate in canon law in Rome, the polyglot joined the Augustinians in Peru in 1985 for the first of his two decade-long missions in that country.Returning to Chicago in 1999, he was made provincial prior of the Augustinians in the US Midwest and later the prior general of the order throughout the world.He returned to Peru in 2014 when Francis appointed him apostolic administrator of the Chiclayo diocese.Prevost also serves as president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

Pope Leo XIV shared articles criticizing US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on social media months before his election as America’s first pontiff, particularly on issues of migration.In February, the then-Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost reposted on X a headline and a link to an essay saying Vance was “wrong” to quote Catholic doctrine to support Washington’s cancellation of foreign aid.The Vatican confirmed Thursday the account was genuine and belonged to the Chicago-born Prevost.The article took issue with Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019 and argued that Christians should love their family first before prioritizing the rest of the world.”JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others,” said the headline reposted on Prevost’s account, along with a link to the story by the National Catholic Reporter.After becoming vice president, Vance justified the cancellation of nearly all US foreign assistance by quoting 12th-century theologian Thomas Aquinas’s concept of “ordo amoris,” or “order of love.”The late pope Francis, in a letter soon afterward to US bishops, said that “true ordo amoris” involved building “a fraternity open to all, without exception.”A few days later Prevost posted the headline and link of another article about Vance’s doctrinal arguments, which referred to Francis’s criticisms of Trump’s mass deportations of migrants.The future pope’s last activity on X before his election on Thursday was to repost a comment by another user criticizing the Trump administration’s mistaken deportation of a migrant to El Salvador.The post talked about “suffering” and asked, “Is your conscience not disturbed?”The US president and vice president made no reference to the new pope’s prior comments as they congratulated him on his election.Vance, who met Francis briefly on Easter Sunday hours before the pontiff died, said: “May God bless him!””I’m sure millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work leading the Church,” he said on X.Trump, who had posted an AI-generated image of himself in papal clothes a few days earlier, said the election of the first pope from the United States was a “great honor for our country.”

Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz discussed the Ukraine war and trade rows with US President Donald Trump on Thursday and said the United States remained Berlin’s “indispensable” partner, using their first phone call to attempt to heal frayed ties.Since Trump returned to the White House, he has rattled Europe with head-pinning changes in security and trade policy, while his top administration officials have strongly supported Germany’s far-right AfD party.Merz, despite being an avowed transatlanticist, has called for Europe to become more independent of its traditional NATO ally and said after his February election win that he had “no illusions” about the new tone from Washington.But in their talk on Thursday, the conservative Merz “assured the American President that, 80 years after the end of the Second World War, the USA remains an indispensable friend and partner of Germany,” said a statement from Berlin.”Both agreed to a close exchange and announced mutual visits to the USA and Germany,” it added without giving dates.Merz’s spokesman Stefan Kornelius highlighted broad agreement to jointly resolve major crises, from the Ukraine war to the escalating US-EU trade row sparked by Trump’s blizzard of tariffs.The new chancellor “shared the President’s call for a swift end to the killing in Ukraine” and said that “Russia must now agree to a ceasefire to create space for negotiations”.The statement added that “Trump said he would strongly support Germany’s efforts, together with France, Great Britain, Poland and other European partners, to achieve lasting peace.”The call came after Merz took power on Tuesday in a bumpy first day during which he was only elected in a second-round vote my MPs, having lost the first one in a surprise upset.His inauguration ended half a year of political paralysis in Europe’s top economy since centre-left ex-chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government collapsed last November 6, the day Trump was re-elected to the White House.- ‘No illusions’ -Trump’s inauguration came about a month before the German election on February 23 and heavily impacted the final stretch of the campaign.The new US president reached out directly to Russia to end the Ukraine war and fuelled doubts about the future strength of NATO, while threatening a trade war that would harm especially export power Germany.Merz, straight after winning the election, urged the speedy formation of a new coalition government, warning that “the world isn’t waiting for us”.He said his “absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA” in security matters.During the campaign, the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) won strong backing from Trump ally Elon Musk, the technology billionaire, who called it the “best hope” for Germany.Last week, after Germany’s domestic intelligence agency designated the AfD a “right-wing extremist” party, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the move “tyranny in disguise”.Vice President JD Vance wrote on X that “the West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt — not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment”.Merz on Tuesday condemned what he labelled the recent “absurd observations” from the United States and said he “would like to encourage the American government… to largely stay out of” German domestic politics.A politician with longstanding US ties, Merz said he had always felt “from America that they can clearly distinguish between extremist parties and parties of the political centre”.Merz also noted on Tuesday that “I did not interfere in the American election campaign” that elected Trump.The Berlin statement after the first Trump-Merz phone call made no mention of the row over the AfD.

A Polish former model testifying through tears Thursday at the trial of Harvey Weinstein said the disgraced movie mogul sexually assaulted her when she was a minor at age 16.Kaja Sokola, 39, alleged in a New York criminal court circumstances surrounding an alleged assault in 2002 when she met with Weinstein in a Manhattan apartment.”I was scared, I never had been in an intimate situation before that,” Sokola said in graphic testimony Thursday, adding that as he molested her she noticed Weinstein “staring at me in the reflection” of a bathroom mirror.”I’ll never forget this,” she said.Sokola is being heard this week in criminal court for the first time, one of three accusers in a 2020 New York case alleging Weinstein committed multiple sexual assaults. Weinstein does not face charges in the alleged 2002 incident with Sokola because its timing is outside the statute of limitations.The previous day Sokola testified that Weinstein also sexually assaulted her in spring 2006, in a Manhattan hotel when she was 19, claims that the former Miramax co-founder denies.The other two accusers — onetime production assistant Miriam Haley and then-aspiring actress Jessica Mann — testified at Weinstein’s original trial.Their two accounts helped galvanize the #MeToo movement nearly a decade ago, but the case is being re-prosecuted as Weinstein faces a new trial in New York. His 2020 convictions on charges relating to Haley and Mann were overturned last year by the New York Court of Appeals, which ruled that the way witnesses were handled in the original trial was unlawful.Sokola said that as an aspiring actress she met Weinstein at a restaurant dinner with other models in 2002 when she was 16. The film producer who is nearly 40 years her senior called her a few days later to propose a lunch meeting, she testified, but instead they arrived at an apartment and he told her to take off her clothes.”He forced me to the bathroom. I told him I didn’t want to do it, and he said I had to work on my stubbornness,” she told the court, testifying that Weinstein touched her and forced her to touch him until he ejaculated.Sokola “felt stupid, ashamed,” she said, as the 73-year-old Weinstein, seated in a wheelchair, looked at the jury or rested his hands on his forehead.When she told Weinstein she wanted to leave, “he got upset” and said that “I had to listen to him if I wanted to pursue my career in Hollywood,” added Sokola, who is now a psychotherapist.Sokola acknowledged that a year later she began losing weight and suffered from conditions including anorexia and bulimia.Asked by prosecutor Shannon Lucey why she never reported what happened, she said “I thought it was my fault.””I was a happy teenager before that,” she said. “I had boundaries, but this happened so rapidly without my permission.”Weinstein, the producer of box-office hits “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love,” has never acknowledged wrongdoing.He is serving a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted in California of raping and assaulting a European actress more than a decade ago.