Harvey Weinstein's lawyer asks to delay civil lawsuit until after criminal trial

By Dominic Patten

Harvey Weinstein is facing more criminal charges. 

The first journalists lined up at 4 a.m., some four hours before the doors of the New York County Supreme Court building opened Monday morning and five-and-a-half hours before Harvey Weinstein entered a courtroom for day one of his first criminal trial.Temperatures in New York were in the mid-30s as the more than 150 journalists who have been credentialed to cover the trial waited for their chance to get inside. "This fucking blows," one veteran news producer in line said to another.

Los Angeles prosecutors on Monday announced new sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein. The disgraced film mogul has been charged with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents back in 2013.

A group of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers, who call themselves the Silence Breakers, represented the more than 90 women who came forward with reports of sexual misconduct when they hosted a press conference on the first day of the embattled Hollywood mogul's criminal trial on Monday morning.Rosanna Arquette,Rose McGowan,Lauren Sivan, Louise Godbold, Dominique Huett, Sarah Ann Masse and Paula Williams stood together — wearing red to reclaim their power — in downtown New York City outside the

Perhaps the biggest mystery that looms over the Harvey Weinstein trial will be whether the defendant will take the witness stand. No pretrial court document is likely to answer this question, and the Fifth Amendment to the U.S.

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein arrived at a Manhattan court on Monday for the start of his landmark trial on charges of rape, allegations that helped fuel the #MeToo movement and a reckoning for powerful men accused of sexual misconduct.

Harvey Weinstein is expected to be in a New York court on Monday as his lawyers and a judge handle the final preparation for his trial on charges of rape and sexual assault.

Harvey Weinstein has said he believes he can “rebuild” his career in Hollywood if a jury clears him on charges of predatory sexual assault, a criminal sexual act, first-degree rape and third-degree rape.

Harvey Weinstein will enter 2020 with another sex assault probe hanging over him.

Harvey Weinstein is set to go on trial next month in New York on charges of rape and sexual assault. But no matter how that case turns out, he will still face criminal jeopardy in Los Angeles.