Harvey Weinstein to be charged in U.K. over assault claims
British prosecutors mentioned Wednesday they’ve approved police to cost ex-film producer Harvey Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault towards a girl in London in 1996.
The Crown Prosecution Service mentioned in an announcement that “prices have been approved” towards Weinstein, 70, following a assessment of proof gathered by London’s Metropolitan Police.
Police mentioned the offences towards the girl, now in her 50s, allegedly happened in July and August 1996.
After revelations about Weinstein emerged in 2017, British police mentioned they had been investigating a number of allegations of sexual assault towards Weinstein that reportedly happened between the Eighties and 2015.
Not like 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 offences towards two ladies.
He’s 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 Firm movie studio, was as soon as some of the highly effective folks in Hollywood, having produced movies akin to Pulp Fiction and The Crying Sport.
The announcement in England on Wednesday got here two weeks after U.Ok. prosecutors approved police to cost actor Kevin Spacey with 4 counts of sexual assault towards three males. The alleged incidents happened in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and one in western England in April 2013.
