Harvey Weinstein charged with further sex crimes in New York | Harvey Weinstein

Disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been charged with additional sex crimes ahead of his retrial in New York, prosecutors in Manhattan said at a hearing on Thursday.

The indictment, brought by a New York grand jury, remains sealed until Weinstein’s arraignment on September 18.

Weinstein, 72, is recovering from emergency heart surgery at a Manhattan hospital on Monday and was absent from Thursday’s hearing. Weinstein has been incarcerated at New York’s Rikers Island prison since April.

At a recent court hearing, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that prosecutors had begun presenting evidence to a grand jury on up to three additional allegations against Weinstein dating back to the mid-2000s.

Prosecutors had sought to retry Weinstein after his 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction was overturned by an appeals court earlier this year.

Weinstein was charged with rape and sexual assault in New York in 2018 and convicted in 2020 after a jury found him guilty of first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

In 2022, a jury in Los Angeles found Weinstein guilty of three counts of rape and sexual assault in a separate case. He was sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison in Los Angeles in 2023.

In April of this year, a New York appeals court overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction in New York, ruling that the judge overseeing the case had prejudiced Weinstein by making inappropriate rulings and should not have allowed other women whose allegations were not part of the case to testify.

In May, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced it would retry the disgraced movie mogul, and this summer a judge set a tentative date for Weinstein’s retrial in the New York case, which is scheduled to begin on November 12.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that the new indictment would, as things stand, be a separate proceeding from the 2020 retrial.

Weinstein has also appealed his conviction in Los Angeles.

The announcement of the new charges against Weinstein on Thursday came just a week after British prosecutors said they would no longer bring sexual assault charges against Weinstein because a review of the evidence found there was “no longer a realistic prospect of a conviction.”

In total, more than 80 women have accused the former film mogul of various sexual assaults and harassment. In 2017, the stories about alleged experiences with Weinstein sparked the #MeToo movement.

Tartar has long maintained that all sexual activity is consensual.

The Associated Press contributed to the reporting