Weinstein, 72, is recovering from emergency heart surgery Monday at a Manhattan hospital and was not at Thursday's hearing.
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crimes charges ahead of his retrial in New York , Manhattan prosecutors said at a hearing Thursday.
They include alleged sexual assaults at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, now known as the Roxy Hotel, and in a Lower Manhattan residential building between late 2005 and mid-2006, and an alleged sexual assault at a Tribeca hotel in May 2016. It remains to be seen whether the new charges will be included in the retrial, as prosecutors hope, or handled as a separate case by the court.no longer pursue charges of indecent assault
At Thursday’s hearing, Judge Curtis Farber ruled that because of Weinstein’s health concerns, he will be allowed to remain at Bellevue Hospital indefinitely instead of being moved back to the city’s Rikers Island jail complex. They said some potential accusers who were not ready to come forward during Weinstein’s first New York trial had indicated they were now willing to testify.
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