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.

A former model alleged in searing detail Thursday that Harvey Weinstein lured her into a hotel room and raped her, offering crucial testimony for New York prosecutors trying to reconvict him for sex crimes.