Harvey Weinstein's retrial on rape and sexual assault charges got underway on April 23, as a prosecutor and a defense lawyer offered starkly contrasting explanations for the disgraced movie mogul's encounters with women who hoped to make it big in Hollywood.

NEW YORK (AP) — Five years after Harvey Weinstein ’s original #MeToo trial delivered a searing reckoning for one of Hollywood’s most powerful figures, the ex-studio boss is on trial again after an appeals court threw out the landmark rape conviction. Opening statements are set for Wednesday in a trial that could take six weeks.

The former Hollywood producer is being retried on a criminal sexual charge and a rape charge from his 2020 trial and a criminal sexual charge related to former model Kaja Sokola.