A former roommate of Miriam Haley - one of the Harvey Weinstein's many accusers - recalled being told about her friend's 2006 sexual assault by the former producer and Hollywood mogul. Elizabeth Entin took the stand Thursday during Weinstein's retrial in New York City.

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,

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.