Sexual crimes | Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who is serving a long sentence, denied the new charge

Long a former movie mogul serving a sex crime sentence Harvey Weinstein denied a new sex crime charge brought against him in court in New York on Wednesday.

Manhattan District Attorney by Alvin Bragg according to the case, it is an incident that allegedly took place in a New York hotel between April and May in 2006. At that time, Weinstein allegedly committed violent sexual harassment of a woman.

“The investigation is still ongoing,” Bragg added.

The judge hearing the case Curtis Farber set the next sitting date for October 2.

Looking pale and frail, the 72-year-old Weinstein was present in the courtroom, sitting in a wheelchair. A little over a week ago, he was rushed from a New York prison to a hospital for heart surgery.

Weinstein is currently serving a 16-year sentence after being convicted of rape in the state of California. He was also sentenced in New York in 2020 to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual abuse.

However, the New York Court of Appeals overturned the latter conviction last April, and Weinstein has been awaiting a retrial on the charges. It was supposed to start on November 12, but prosecutors said Wednesday they thought the date was unrealistic.

At the end of the last decade, Weinstein was at the center of the me too campaign that spread through social media, when numerous women reported that they had been harassed or raped by Weinstein.

Weinstein was for a long time one of the most influential people in the film industry. He founded together with his brother Bob Weinstein’s with Miramax Films, which became very successful. The company was later sold to Disney.

Films produced by the company include, for example, Pulp Fiction and Shakespeare in Love.