Harvey Weinstein Pleads 'Not Guilty' To New Charge

NEW YORK CITY – Former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, 72, is reportedly set to be arraigned in Manhattan on Wednesday, in a new indictment accusing him of up to three additional sex offenses.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office disclosed the existence of the new charges, which remain sealed, at a court hearing earlier this month.

Weinstein’s attorney, Arthur Aidala, confirmed the disgraced producer will appear in person for the arraignment.

Weinstein, who has recently been recovering from emergency heart surgery, is currently being held at Bellevue Hospital in Kips Bay. A judge recently ruled that he can remain in the hospital’s prison ward indefinitely instead of being transferred back to Rikers Island.

New Allegations

The new indictment reportedly involves allegations from the mid-2000s and 2016, tied to incidents at a Tribeca hotel – then the Tribeca Grand Hotel, now the Roxy Hotel – and a Lower Manhattan residential building.

These charges come as Weinstein awaits a retrial scheduled for Nov. 12, following the overturning of his 2020 conviction by New York's highest court. In a 4-3 decision in April, the state Court of Appeals determined that the trial judge improperly allowed testimony concerning allegations unrelated to the case.

Prosecutors are seeking to include the new charges in the upcoming retrial, though Weinstein’s defense team is pushing for a separate case, citing uncertainty over the specific details of the new allegations, which remain under seal.

Weinstein has consistently denied any wrongdoing, maintaining that all encounters were consensual. In 2022, he was convicted in a separate rape case in Los Angeles.

The allegations against Weinstein, which first surfaced in 2017 following bombshell reports in the New York Times and the New Yorker, are widely seen as a turning point in the fight against sexual harassment and the abuse of power in the workplace.

UPDATE: Harvey Weinstein, in a wheelchair, pleaded not guilty in a New York City courtroom on Wednesday, according to CNN, after he was indicted by a grand jury earlier this month.

The new indictment, which was unsealed on Wednesday, included one count of criminal sex act in the 1st degree, "for sexually assaulting a woman in a lower Manhattan hotel on one occasion between April 29, 2006, and May 6, 2006," according to Bragg's office.