The Weinstein Company – once said to be worth $800m (£629m) – filed for bankruptcy following the allegations against its co-founder.

Weinstein’s forthcoming trial is set to be one of the most high-profile of the decade, given both his position as a producer so powerful he’s been thanked in Oscar-winning speeches as many times as ‘God’, and the celebrity status of many of his publicly identified accusers, including Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino.

In February 2019 it was reported that Weinstein was desperately trying to hire a ‘skirt’ – a derogatory term for a female lawyer – to join his new legal defence team to ‘soften his image’. But the mogul was finding it difficult to track down top female lawyers willing to join his cause.

Wonder why.

This is how much compensation Harvey Weinstein’s victims will be getting