Assistant District Attorney Shannon Lucey began the prosecution’s opening statement by quoting alleged remarks said by Weinstein, including “I make, I break careers.” Lucey also told the jury that Weinstein used “dream opportunities as weapons” against these women to take advantage of them.

The former Hollywood producer faces sexual assault allegations in New York once again, almost a year after his 2020 conviction was overturned.

Harvey Weinstein’s retrial on rape and sexual assault charges is set to proceed Wednesday with opening statements before a Manhattan jury, a year after New York’s highest state appeals court overturned the disgraced movie mogul’s conviction.