Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York

Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.

Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.

The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.

Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein was indicted on additional sex crime charges that were not part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.

Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.

But it is not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.

While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein is also awaiting retrial, after New York State’s highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin November 12.