Five years after women's stories about him made the MeToo movement explode, Harvey Weinstein is going on trial in the city where he once was a colossus at the Oscars.
brought about his downfall, Weinstein’s power to seemingly will films to win awards had diminished, and his company had fallen into financial trouble.
The Los Angeles trial is likely to be far less of a spectacle than the New York proceedings, and not merely because it’s a sequel and Weinstein is already serving a long sentence.Foot traffic is sparse and there is no grand entrance at the downtown LA courthouse that’s hosting the trial.
Weinstein will also be represented by different lawyers in Los Angeles, Alan Jackson and Mark Werksman. They have expressed worries that the movies may play a role in trial.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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