Once all-powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial is set to begin a year after a New York appeals court overturned his conviction.

The former roommate of Miriam Haley, one of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers, took the stand on Thursday at the former Hollywood producer’s retrial in New York City. Elizabeth Entin, who lived with Haley in the East Village in 2006,

Harvey Weinstein's retrial started with opening statements on Wednesday in New York City, five years after the original trial was a catalyst in the #MeToo movement.The 73-year-old disgraced movie mogul is being retried on a criminal sex act charge for allegedly forcibly performing oral sex on a production assistant at her apartment in 2006,