New York state’s highest court overturned his 2020 rape conviction earlier this year.
pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York , as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
The 72-year-old Weinstein, who came to court in a wheelchair, has been at a Manhattan hospital following emergency surgery Sept. 9 to drain fluid around his heart and lungs.Thank you for your past contribution to HuffPost. We are sincerely grateful for readers like you who help us ensure that we can keep our journalism free for everyone.
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