Five years after women’s stories about him made the #MeToo movement explode, Harvey Weinstein is going on trial in Los Angeles, where he once was king of the Oscars.
Four more women will be allowed to take the stand to give accounts of Weinstein sexual assaults that did not lead to charges, but which prosecutors hope will show jurors he had a propensity for committing such acts.
"He was a creature of New York, but he was also a creature of Los Angeles," said Kim Masters, editor at large for The Hollywood Reporter and a longtime observer of the movie industry. “He had this huge Golden Globes party that was always well beyond capacity when he was in his heyday. He was the King of Hollywood in New York and LA.”
By the time stories about him in The New York Times and The New Yorker in October of 2017 brought about his downfall, Weinstein's power to seemingly will films to win awards had diminished, and his company had fallen into financial trouble. Foot traffic is sparse and there is no grand entrance at the downtown LA courthouse that's hosting the trial. Weinstein will not be visible to any media horde or protesters outside as he was in Manhattan, as he'll be ushered into the courtroom straight from jail — once he's changed from his prison garb into a suit — across a short hallway where no cameras are allowed that could capture him.
The film “She Said," which fictionalizes the work of two New York Times reporters and their bombshell stories on Weinstein, is set to be released midway through the trial on Nov. 18.
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