Disgraced film producer Weinstein pleads not guilty to new sexual assault charges

In a new indictment, the imprisoned former film mogul is accused of committing a criminal sexual act: He is alleged to have forced oral sex on a woman sometime between April 29 and May 6, 2006.

No details have been released about the plaintiff involved in the new indictment.

“Thanks to this survivor who bravely came forward, Harvey Weinstein now faces trial for yet another alleged sexual assault,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement, adding that the investigation is ongoing.

Prosecutors announced last week that Weinstein had been charged with additional sex crimes that were not part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction, but the new charges were under seal.

Prosecutors had previously stated that the grand jury had heard evidence on up to three alleged incidents dating back to the mid-2000s.

In April, New York State’s highest court overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction. He was accused of rape and sexual assault of two women.

The court ordered a new hearing, which is tentatively scheduled to begin on November 12.

The appeals court ruled that the judge at the time had wrongly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge’s term ended in 2022 and he is no longer in office.

Prosecutors have said they will try to include the new charges in the new trial, but Weinstein’s lawyers say it should be a separate trial.

Weinstein, who was also convicted in a Los Angeles rape case in 2022, remains behind bars while he awaits his new trial in New York.

The 72-year-old insisted that all sexual activities were consensual.

The imprisoned former film mogul, who recently underwent emergency surgery, arrived at the Manhattan court in a wheelchair.

A judge agreed last week to keep Weinstein in the jail ward at Bellevue Hospital indefinitely rather than transferring him back to the infirmary at New York’s Rikers Island prison complex.

Weinstein, once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, co-founded the film and television production companies Miramax and the Weinstein Company and produced films such as “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Crying Game.”