Harvey Weinstein under investigation for additional sexual assaults, prosecutor says

Disgraced movie mogul appears in a New York court as prosecutors pursue new sex crimes charges

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Former film producer Harvey Weinstein in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Tuesday. Photo: Pool photo via AP

Published: 2:52am, 10 Jul 2024Updated: 12:37pm, 10 Jul 2024

Prosecutors are investigating “additional violent sexual assaults” they say former Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein committed and intend to seek a new indictment after his previous conviction was overturned, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Prosecutor Nicole Blumberg said in a hearing before Justice Curtis Farber in New York state criminal court in Manhattan that the additional assaults Weinstein allegedly committed were still within the statute of limitations to be charged as crimes.

Weinstein was found guilty on rape allegations in 2020 in a milestone for the #MeToo movement, in which women accused hundreds of men in entertainment, media, politics and other fields of sexual misconduct.

A jury found the 72-year-old Miramax film studio co-founder sexually assaulted former production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006 and raped aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013. They are among more than 80 women who have accused him of sexual misconduct.

A solitary confinement cell at New York City’s Rikers Island prison. Photo: AP

He was sentenced to 23 years in prison, but the New York Court of Appeals in April found that Judge James Burke, who presided over the trial, made a critical mistake by allowing three women to testify about alleged sexual assaults by Weinstein that were not part of the criminal charges against him.