Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears at a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 1, 2024 in New York City. This is his first public appearance since the New York State Court of Appeals overturned his 2020 rape conviction on April 25.
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Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul whose alleged sexual misconduct fueled the #MeToo movement, has been indicted on new charges by a New York City grand jury.
The new charges are sealed, prosecutors told a judge in Manhattan criminal court on Thursday, adding that they could not yet go into details.
NBC News was the first to report this month that a grand jury had been convened to hear from women who had come forward with new allegations against Weinstein, 72.
Weinstein, who was rushed to a hospital earlier this week for heart surgery, did not appear in court Thursday.
In total, more than 80 women have accused the Oscar-winning former producer of sexual assault or harassment. He has repeatedly and vehemently denied those allegations, insisting that the encounters in question were consensual.
Weinstein was convicted in 2020 of third-degree rape of one woman and first-degree criminal sexual act against another woman following a trial in New York, where he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
But that conviction was overturned in April after a state appeals court, in a 4-3 decision, found that the judge had erred in allowing the women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case.
New York prosecutors announced months later that they intended to re-indict Weinstein for the same crimes and possibly file new charges.
The former producer is due to go on trial in November, but it is unclear whether he will be tried at the same time on the original and new charges. He will remain in custody until the new trial is held.
In addition to the New York case, Weinstein was found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault at a trial set to take place in 2022 in Los Angeles, where he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Weinstein's legal team is in the process of appealing that conviction.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Weinstein and his younger brother, Bob, were titans of the film industry, producing seminal independent films like “Pulp Fiction” and distributing the Oscar-winning dramas “The English Patient,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “The King's Speech.”
But her reign came crashing down in October 2017 when women began speaking publicly about sexual abuse, inspiring a broader reckoning with abuses of power in showbiz and other high-profile industries.
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