NEW YORK — The estranged sister of Harvey Weinstein accuser Kaja Sokola told jurors her sibling appeared “extremely tense” after a 2006 post-lunch meeting with the movie mogul in a Tribeca hotel room — but nothing about the encounter led her to think Weinstein sexually assaulted her.

Ewa Sokola added that she didn’t even know her sister had accused Weinstein until she read about it in a 2022 Rolling Stone article, she told jurors at his Manhattan Supreme Court sexual assault retrial.

“I was shocked,” she said of the article. Prior to that, she said, “(Kaja Sokola) was proud of knowing him. That’s why she invited me for this meeting in May 2006.”

Kaja Sokola is expected to testify later at trial that the Miramax Films boss sexually assaulted her in a Tribeca Grand Hotel room in May 2006 after he led her away from the table during lunch with her and her sister.

Ewa Sokola testified that when her sister, then a 19-year-old model, returned from Weinstein’s room, her tension seemed “like somebody waiting for the result of an exam … like waiting for the Oscar nominations when you’re not sure what the outcome was going to be,” rather than someone who’d just been assaulted.

It was “a little bit of thrill and little bit of dread,” she said during direct testimony.

The retrial, which has entered its third week of testimony, will mark the first time Kaja Sokola’s allegations have aired in an open court proceeding.

Kaja Sokola, a Polish model with dreams of becoming an actress, said in a civil lawsuit that Weinstein first sexually abused her inside his Soho apartment in September 2002, when she was just 16 years old. The criminal charges against him relate not to that incident, but to the alleged May 2006 assault.

Prosecutors subpoenaed Ewa Sokola, who had a falling out with her sister last year, to get her to testify Wednesday.

She said she met her sister and Weinstein for about an hour, and she offered the Hollywood heavyweight some advice about his health.

“He seemed a little bit overweight to me. I was a freshly baked cardiologist,” Ewa Sokola siad. “I think he was cool with it.”

Weinstein needed emergency heart surgery last year.

Kaja Sokola left the table with Weinstein for between a half-hour and an hour, and when she returned, Ewa noticed the “extreme tension,” she said.

She made that same observation in earlier grand jury testimony, but prosecutors didn’t ask her then to elaborate further on what she meant.

“Did she tell you when she came down that she had been forcibly sexually assaulted by Mr. Weinstein?” Cibella asked, and she responded, “No.”

“If you had observed something … you would have pushed further?” Cibella asked, getting the response, “Of course.”

Assistant D.A. Shannon Lucey tried to dig deeper after the cross-examination, pressing Ewa Sokola on whether her sister said anything at all as they left the hotel, and highlighting her earlier grand jury testimony that her sister “would not say a word, what happened, or how did it go.”

Last week featured days of emotional testimony from Miriam Haley, a former TV production assistant who accused Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in his Soho loft on July 10, 2006.

Haley also testified at Weinstein’s 2020 trial, which ended with a jury finding him guilty of rape for an attack on aspiring actress Jessica Mann at the DoubleTree hotel in 2013, and criminal sex act based off Haley’s allegations. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

The state’s highest court overturned that conviction in April 2024 in a 4-3 ruling that the trial court judge, James Burke, shouldn’t have allowed testimony of “uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes,”

Weinstein’s retrial covers allegations by Haley and Mann, as well the new allegations by Sokola.

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