Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, is scheduled to appear before a judge on Wednesday afternoon in the same New York City courthouse where former President Donald Trump is currently on trial.
Weinstein is awaiting a retrial on rape charges after his 2020 conviction was overturned.
During the court hearing, various legal issues related to the upcoming trial will be addressed. The retrial is tentatively scheduled to take place sometime after Labor Day. Although Weinstein’s original trial was held in the same courtroom where Trump is now on trial, the two men are unlikely to cross paths. Weinstein is in custody and will be brought to and from the courtroom under guard, appearing in a different courtroom on another floor.
In his original trial, Weinstein was convicted of raping Jessica Mann, an aspiring actor, and sexually assaulting Miriam Haley, a former TV and film production assistant.
However, last month, New York’s highest court threw out those convictions, determining that the trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations from other women that weren’t part of the case. Weinstein, 72, has maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
The overturning of Weinstein’s convictions has reopened a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures. The #MeToo movement began in 2017 with a flood of allegations against Weinstein.
Last week, prosecutors asked Judge Curtis Farber to remind Weinstein’s lawyers not to discuss or disparage potential witnesses in public ahead of the retrial.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office argued that Weinstein’s lead attorney, Arthur Aidala, made statements meant to intimidate Haley earlier this month.
Haley has said that she does not want to go through the trauma of testifying again but would consider it for the sake of doing the right thing. Her attorney, Gloria Allred, declined to comment until after attending Wednesday’s proceedings.
In addition to his New York case, Weinstein was also convicted of rape in Los Angeles in 2022 and is currently sentenced to 16 years in prison in California.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.