Ex-Film Mogul Harvey Weinstein May Face New Sex Crimes Charges

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Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein may face new sexual assault charges ahead of his retrial this fall, Manhattan prosecutors said.

Authorities are investigating “additional violent sexual assaults” allegedly carried out by Weinstein that are not subject to a statute of limitations, assistant district attorney Nicole Blumberg said.

“As we said in 2020, there were women who were not ready to proceed with the legal process,” Blumberg told Judge Curtis Farber at a court hearing. “Some of those women are now ready to proceed.”

New York’s highest court overturned Weinstein’s conviction on sex crime charges in April in a shock reversal in one of the defining cases of the #MeToo movement. Weinstein was convicted in New York in 2020 of the rape and sexual assault of former actress Jessica Mann in 2013, and of forcibly performing oral sex on former production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006.

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