Harvey Weinstein to be charged in UK over assault claims

British prosecutors mentioned Wednesday they’ve authorised police to cost ex-film producer Harvey Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault towards a lady in London in 1996.

The Crown Prosecution Service mentioned in an announcement that “charges have been authorised” towards Weinstein, 70, following a evaluate of proof gathered by London’s Metropolitan Police.

Police mentioned the alleged offenses towards the girl, now in her 50s, befell in throughout July and August 1996.

After revelations about Weinstein emerged in 2017, British police mentioned they have been investigating a number of allegations of sexual assault towards Weinstein that reportedly befell between the Nineteen Eighties and 2015.

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Unlike many different nations, Britain doesn’t have a statute of limitations for rape or sexual assault.

Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence for rape after his 2020 conviction in New York for offenses towards two ladies.

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He is jailed in California, the place he was extradited final 12 months, and is awaiting trial on prices he assaulted 5 ladies in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills from 2004 to 2013.

Weinstein, the co-founder of the Miramax leisure firm and The Weinstein Company movie studio, was as soon as some of the highly effective individuals in Hollywood, having produced movies reminiscent of “Pulp Fiction” and “The Crying Game”.

The announcement in England on Wednesday got here two weeks after UK prosecutors authorised police to cost actor Kevin Spacey with 4 counts of sexual assault towards three males. The alleged incidents befell in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and one in western England in April 2013.