Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced head of Hollywood, will go on trial in Los Angeles on Monday for the crimes he is accused of committing in the city he ruled for decades.
The “Pulp Fiction” producer, 70, was found guilty of several sex crimes in New York and is currently serving a 23-year sentence behind bars.
In a trial that is anticipated to take two months, he now faces 11 more accusations, including sexual battery by restraint, forcible rape, and forcible oral copulation against women in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles hotels between 2004 and 2013.
If convicted, Weinstein who has pleaded not guilty to all counts could be sentenced to 140 additional years behind bars.
Jury selection was set to begin Monday in a downtown Los Angeles court.
Widespread sexual abuse and harassment allegations against Weinstein exploded in October 2017, and his conviction in New York in 2020 was a landmark in the #MeToo movement.
In June, he lost a bid to have that sex crimes conviction overturned. He has also been separately charged by British prosecutors with the 1996 indecent assault of a woman in London.
In total, nearly 90 women, including Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Salma Hayek, have accused Weinstein of harassment or assault.
He says that all his sexual encounters were consensual, and his lawyer told reporters that the Los Angeles accusations “stem from many years ago” and cannot “be substantiated or corroborated by any forensic evidence” or “credible witnesses.”
The New York Film Festival this week will premiere “She Said,” a film about the 2017 newspaper investigation into Weinstein that sparked the demise of his movie empire.
The producer and his brother Bob were Hollywood’s top power brokers prior to the charges against him coming to light.
In 1979, they helped found Miramax Films, a distributor that bears their parents’ names, Max and Miriam. Disney purchased it in 1993.
One of their hits, “Shakespeare in Love,” won Weinstein a share of the best picture Oscar in 1998. More than 300 Oscar nominations and 81 awards have been given to Weinstein’s films over the years.
