Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to a new sex crime charge during a court hearing in New York.
The disgraced producer is charged with committing a criminal sex act. Further details of the new allegations, which were first announced last week, have not yet been made available.
Weinstein‘s latest hearing comes just over a week after he underwent emergency heart surgery at a hospital in Manhattan to remove fluid on his heart and lungs.
As well as the new charge, the disgraced producer is also facing a retrial over his 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction, which was overturned by New York’s highest court in a landmark ruling in April.
The 72-year-old had been serving a 23-year prison sentence at the time. He has remained in custody due to another conviction last year, for the rape of an actress in Los Angeles in 2013.
Now, the retrial is scheduled to start on 12 November, subject to possible delay due to the new charge.
Weinstein has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
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Once one of the most powerful people in Hollywood, Weinstein co-founded the film and television production companies Miramax and The Weinstein Company, and produced films such as the Oscar-winning Shakespeare In Love, Pulp Fiction, and The Crying Game.
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