Harvey Weinstein is facing new sexual assault charges as he prepares for the start of a criminal trial in Manhattan that will mark the culmination of harassment and assault claims against the disgraced movie mogul that sparked the #MeToo movement.
Los Angeles county prosecutors announced on Monday that they were charging the disgraced movie mogul with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in 2013.
The two incidents allegedly happened over a two-day period, prosecutors said. In the first, Mr Weinstein allegedly raped one woman after forcing his way into her hotel room. In the second, he is accused of assaulting a woman at a hotel suite in Beverly Hills.