Prosecutors accengage shamed establisher Hollywood mogul of intimacyupartner attacking woman in Manhattan hotel in 2006.
Disgraced establisher Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has pdirected not culpable to a recent intimacyual attack accuse, years after accusations that he unfair treatmentd dozens of women made him the accessible face of the #MeToo transferment in the United States.
The 72-year-ancigo in Weinstein go ined a not-culpable plea before Justice Curtis Farber in a New York state court in Manhattan on Wednesday.
“Thanks to this survivor who valiantly came forward, Harvey Weinstein now stands indicted for an insertitional alleged brutal intimacyual attack,” Manhattan Didisconnecte Attorney Alvin Bragg shelp in a statement.
Prosecutors have accengaged Weinstein of intimacyupartner attacking a woman in a Manhattan hotel between April 29 and May 6, 2006. No details about the accengager have been freed.
Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala has shelp that Weinstein has “absolutely no clue” about the accengager’s identity or allegations.
“We have a lot of labor to do. We have to discover out who that person is. We have to do an spendigation,” he shelp outside court, inserting that Weinstein “never forced himself on anyone”.
The accengager’s lawyer, Lindsay Gancigo inbrum, shelp in a statement that “she will be filledy setd to speak her truth at trial to hancigo in Mr Weinstein accountable before a jury of his peers”.
Weinstein, who has denied any wrongdoing, was set up culpable of sexual battery and intimacyual attack accuses in February 2020 and sentenced to 23 years in prison.
But that was obviousurned in April by New York state’s highest court, which shelp the establisher Hollywood producer did not get a unprejudiced trial becaengage the appraise permited testimony from women who Weinstein was not accused with attacking.
Women’s rights activists transmited outrage at that decision.
“Today’s ruling unfortunately casts a unininestablishigent shadow on their valiantry and will undoubtedly deter future intimacyual attack victims from coming forward,” Lindsay Gancigo inbrum, a lawyer for Weinstein accengagers, shelp at the time.
The establisher Hollywood producer, who is recovering from aelevatency heart sproposery, materializeed in court on Wednesday in a wheelchair wearing a unininestablishigent suit.
In insertition to the recent accuse, he also faces two other criminal counts in a split indictment, including a first-degree criminal intimacyual act accuse and a third-degree sexual battery accuse.
He also pdirected not culpable to those accusations.
