Takeaways From the Weinstein Trial, and a Look Ahead at Week 6

When Harvey Weinstein traveled around the world as a Hollywood titan, his movie production and distribution company would often host parties. His assistants knew exactly whom to invite.

There was a list of women called “friends of Harvey,” according to one of his former executive assistants. The list was broken down by city, country and region, and Mr. Weinstein’s aides depended on it, said the former assistant, Elizabeth Perz.

“Friends of Harvey are women that he would meet at events or parties or festivals,” Ms. Perz said last week during Mr. Weinstein’s retrial in New York on sex crimes charges. “Or somewhere.”

And if a woman fell out of favor, she said, her name would be crossed out.

One woman in the “L.A. Friends” group, according to a version of the list presented by prosecutors, was Jessica Mann, an aspiring actress who says Mr. Weinstein raped her in 2013.

Ms. Mann is one of the main witnesses in Mr. Weinstein’s retrial in Manhattan criminal court. After a state appeals court overturned a previous conviction last year, the former producer now faces two counts of a criminal sexual act in the first degree and one count of third-degree rape.

Ms. Mann testified in the first trial, in 2020, along with another accuser, Miriam Haley, a former television production assistant who said Mr. Weinstein assaulted her in 2006. In his retrial, Mr. Weinstein faces a new charge of sexually assaulting Kaja Sokola, a model, in a Manhattan hotel in 2006.