(18 Sep 2024)
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New York – 18 September 2024
1. STILL of Harvey Weinstein in court
2. STILL of Harvey Weinstein in court
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Marcelo, The Associated Press:
"Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to a new criminal charge in New York on Wednesday. The indictment, unsealed in Manhattan court charges him with a new count of criminal sex act. No details about the accuser were revealed in court, but a lawyer for the woman said she’s never shared her story publicly and wants to remain unidentified."
++BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Marcelo, The Associated Press:
"Weinstein has long maintained that any sexual acts were consensual. How this affects his upcoming retrial on his 2020 rape conviction that was overturned earlier this. U.S. prosecutors want the new charges to be rolled up into an old case. But Weinstein’s lawyers want the cases to remain separate. For now, Weinstein remains in custody."
++ENDS ON A SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Seven years after sexual assault and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein turbocharged the #MeToo movement, the ex-movie mogul faces a new sex crime charge from an accuser who’s never told her story publicly.
While awaiting retrial on other sex charges in a landmark #MeToo case, Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new charge of forcing oral sex on a woman in a Manhattan hotel in spring 2006.
Prosecutors released no details about her, and Weinstein’s lawyer said he had no idea who she is. But an attorney said that she represents the woman and that she has never made her accusation public.
According to the indictment and another court document, the alleged assault — the specific charge is a “criminal sex act” — happened at a lower Manhattan hotel between April 29, 2006, and May 6 of that year.
Weinstein has long maintained that he never engaged in any sexual activity that wasn’t consensual.
The 72-year-old Weinstein, who is recovering from emergency surgery, came to court in a wheelchair, carrying two novels with him. He appeared to watch the proceeding intently.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on at least one additional sex crime charge that wasn’t part of the earlier case. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment Wednesday.
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