The ex-boyfriend of an aspiring actress testified that she was “appalled” after Harvey Weinstein opened his hotel room door in a robe and allegedly requested she have a threesome with him and his assistant.

Lincoln Davies told jurors Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court that Dawn Dunning returned from her meeting with Weinstein at the Intercontinental hotel in 2004 distraught.

“She was pretty shocked, upset, angry, kind of overall appalled,” Davies said. “She ended up crying.”

On Wednesday, Dunning testified that Weinstein had name-dropped Charlize Theron and Salma Hayek as he tried to wrangle a threesome with her in exchange for roles in three of his movies.

“He opened the door and he was wearing an open white bathrobe,” she recalled of the meeting.

He gestured to three stacks of paper that were purportedly contracts for three films and allegedly told her if she had a three-way with him and his assistant, she’d get the roles.

After she refused the proposition, she said, he became irate. “He got really angry and started screaming at me,” she recalled. “He was like, ‘You will never make it in this business, this is how this industry works.’”

That’s when he recited the names of Charlize Theron and Salma Hayek, claiming that that is how they made it in Hollywood.

She fled the hotel suite and rushed home to Davies, whom prosecutors called to the stand to corroborate her testimony.

Weinstein is not charged for any crime against Dunning. She is one of three alleged victims who are allowed to testify about Weinstein’s prior bad acts for which he’s not charged.

He faces up to life in prison on predatory sexual assault, rape and other charges stemming from incidents involving three women — Mimi Haleyi, Annabella Sciorra and Jessica Mann.

Another witness, Dev Sen, a partner at Boies Schiller, testified Thursday that the law firm helped broker a contract between the private intelligence agency Black Cube and Weinstein in 2017.

Although Sen’s testimony took less than four minutes, Assistant DA Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said out of the earshot of jurors that Weinstein hired Black Cube to investigate his accusers, including Sciorra, and kill negative stories about him.

When a reporter asked Weinstein as he left the courthouse why he had hired the investigative firm run by former Israeli spies, he replied, “For days like this.”

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