By Jennifer Glickel
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — A personal assistant for "Spider-Man" sweetheart Kirsten Dunst testified on Thursday that she, not the actress, had pot in her bag at the time Dunst's purse was stolen, but said the celebrity knew nothing about the drugs.
Dunst's assistant, Liat Baruch, was testifying at the trial of James Jimenez, 35, who allegedly stole the actress' bag from her penthouse suite at the SoHo Grand hotel in 2007. Dunst was staying at the hotel during shooting for "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People," and shared a suite with co-star Simon Peg.
"I was planning on smoking it after we wrapped, after work," Baruch said in court on Thursday of the marijuana in her bag, according to the Daily News.
Drugs became a focus of the case on Wednesday when Jimenez's attorney, Robert Parker, said his client's alleged accomplice, Jarrod Beinerman, is a "major New York drug dealer" who had permission to be in Dunst's hotel room.
Jimenez is on trial for the second time in this burglary case, while Beinerman is serving a four-year sentence for pleading guilty in 2008 to burglary charges related to the incident.
