What will Mr Weinstein face trial for? Mr Weinstein's criminal trial is set to begin on 6 January in Manhattan. He is accused of raping a woman in a hotel room in the New York borough in 2013, and of performing a forcible sex act on a second woman in 2006. He denies the charges. He also pleaded not guilty in August to two additional charges of predatory sexual assault over an alleged rape in 1993, although these cannot be prosecuted because of time limits.