Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is dealing with new prices in New York Metropolis, prosecutors have mentioned.
The small print of the indictment might be sealed till he seems in court docket to be formally charged on 18 September, they mentioned.
Nevertheless, a number of stories from US media, together with the BBC’s accomplice CBS Information, have mentioned the costs are linked to allegations of intercourse crimes.
Manhattan prosecutors not too long ago informed a court docket listening to they’d proof of as much as three extra allegations in opposition to Weinstein from incidents courting again to 2005.
New York prosecutor Nicole Blumberg mentioned in court docket on Thursday that a number of accusers have been ready to testify in opposition to Weinstein, in response to Time.
Talking to reporters exterior of court docket, Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala mentioned: “We don’t know something. We don’t know what the precise accusations are”.
“We all know actually as a lot as you do,” the journal reported him saying.
The decide within the case has ordered Weinstein to remain in a jail hospital in the intervening time, after the 72-year-old was rushed to a New York hospital for emergency coronary heart surgical procedure on Monday.
Mr Aidala informed the court docket his consumer “nearly died”, CBS Information reported.
The BBC has reached out to Harvey Weinstein’s legal professionals for remark.
Weinstein is awaiting a retrial within the metropolis after an appeals court docket overturned his 2020 conviction of rape and sexual assault prices.
The case was thrown out after it was dominated that the decide within the authentic trial had allowed proof to be offered about allegations that weren’t a part of the case.
The retrial is scheduled for November and it’s unclear if the brand new prices might be added to that indictment, or introduced individually.
As soon as Weinstein’s authorized instances are full in New York, he’s anticipated to return to California to serve a 16-year sentence for a rape conviction, in opposition to which he’s additionally interesting.
Greater than 100 individuals have made sexual misconduct and rape allegations in opposition to Weinstein courting again to the Nineteen Seventies.
Weinstein has maintained his innocence.
Earlier than his fall from grace, he co-founded the movie studio Miramax which produced award-winning movies like Pulp Fiction and Shakespeare in Love.
