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Harvey Weinstein won a judge's approval Friday to overhaul the defense team in his rape and sexual assault case, replacing his bulldog New York City attorney with a four-person squad that's high on courtroom stars and headline-grabbing cases.

The disgraced Hollywood mogul was in a Manhattan courtroom — along with new lawyers Jose Baez, Ronald Sullivan and Duncan Levin, and ex-lawyer Benjamin Brafman — as Judge James Burke signed off on the switch.

Weinstein, 66, and Brafman, 70, announced last week that they had "agreed to part ways amicably."

Weinstein's trial is slated for May 6, with a pretrial hearing March 8. Baez said they planned to abide by that schedule.