Jury selection starts on Tuesday for Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual-assault trial. Here's everything you need to know about the trial
Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual-assault trial is scheduled to start next week in Manhattan. The disgraced movie mogul faces charges for alleged nonconsensual encounters relating to three women. On Monday, January 6, Weinstein, his lawyers, and prosecutors will appear at the 100 Centre Street courthouse to hash out any last-minute issues, and on Tuesday, jury selection starts.
Not surprisingly, the Kazan tome raised eyebrows. Not only was Kazan snubbed by Hollywood after naming entertainment-industry figures as communists in his House Un-American Activities Committee testimony — the director of On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire was a reputed womanizer who had been accused of sexual assault, per the Guardian.
This is similar to what happened in Bill Cosby’s trial. Five other accusers were allowed to testify that the disgraced comedian drugged and molested them, strengthening Andrea Constand’s accusations. In a New York Post interview several weeks ago, Weinstein said, “I feel like the forgotten man.” Weinstein, who was recovering from back surgery at New York–Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, told reporter Rebecca Rosenberg, “I made more movies directed by women and about women than any filmmaker, and I’m talking about 30 years ago. I’m not talking about now when it’s vogue. I did it first! I pioneered it! It all got eviscerated because of what happened. My work has been forgotten.
He has also had some awkward exchanges with Justice James Burke, the judge presiding over his case. When Burke warned Weinstein that his trial wouldn’t be postponed over health issues, he replied, “This is the only time I’ve asked [this] … This is a good thing.” In August, Burke told Weinstein to stop using his cell phone in court. He was also photographed leaving court with tic-tac-toe on a legal notepad.
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