Los Angeles adds new sexual battery count against Harvey Weinstein

Los Angeles prosecutors have charged imprisoned former film producer Harvey Weinstein with an ditional count of felony sexual battery by restraint.

district attorney’s office said charge was filed over allegations former movie mogul sexually assaulted a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel in May 2010. woman was initially interviewed by detectives as a corroborating witness but recently provided details showing her alleged assault occurred within 10-year statute of limitations.

charge has been ded to a Los Angeles case that alleges Weinstein sexually assaulted two women in separate incidents in 2013.

Weinstein, 68, was convicted in February of rape and sexual assault in New York and is serving a 23-year prison sentence. He recently overcame a bout with coronavirus. It is unkwn when he will be transported to face charges in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles prosecutors on Friday said y are declining to prosecute two or cases involving Weinstein because women did t want to testify against him.

A spokesman for Weinstein did t immediately respond to an email mess seeking comment.

Weinstein, Oscar-winning producer of “Shakespeare in Love,” was convicted of raping an aspiring actress in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on a TV and film production assistant in 2006. His lawyers have said y’ll appeal his 23-year prison sentence.

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