Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not responsible to committing a legal sexual act in a New York court docket.
The 72-year-old is dealing with a brand new cost over the alleged sexual assault of a lady in a Manhattan resort in 2006, in accordance with District Lawyer Alvin L. Bragg.
“Not responsible,” Weinstein mentioned emphatically when requested for his plea on Wednesday.
Showing in court docket in a wheelchair, Weinstein wore a darkish swimsuit and a blue tie, and with a big bandage on his proper hand.
“Due to this survivor who bravely got here ahead, Harvey Weinstein now stands indicted for a further alleged violent sexual assault,” Mr Bragg mentioned in an announcement.
Individually, Weinstein is awaiting retrial after New York’s prime appeals court docket threw out his rape conviction and 23-year-sentence in April.
The conviction was dismissed on the idea he didn’t get a good trial as a result of the choose allowed testimony from girls who he was not charged with assaulting.
Weinstein has denied having non consensual sexual encounters with anybody.
He stays in custody serving a 16-year-sentence over the 2013 rape of an actress in LA.
In July he was moved to a New York prison hospital with a number of well being issues together with Covid and double pneumonia.
Final week he underwent emergency heart surgery, in accordance with his attorneys.
Prosecutors have filed a movement to consolidate the brand new cost and the pending retrial within the 2020 overturned rape conviction.
A choose is about to rule on that on 2 October.
