Harvey Weinstein faces a new sex crime charge. The accuser has never gone public
Harvey Weinstein is facing a new sex crime charge from as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case in New York
NEW YORK (AP) — Seven years after sexual assault and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein turbocharged the #MeToo movement, the ex-movie mogul faces a new sex crime charge from an accuser who's never told her story publicly.
While awaiting retrial on other sex charges in a landmark #MeToo case, Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new charge of forcing oral sex on a woman in a Manhattan hotel in spring 2006.
Prosecutors released no details about her, and Weinstein's lawyer said he had no idea who she is. But an attorney said that she represents the woman and that she has never made her accusation public.
“She will be fully prepared to speak her truth at trial to hold Mr. Weinstein accountable before a jury of his peers,” the lawyer, Lindsay Goldbrum, said in a statement. She said the woman doesn't want to be identified for now, and the law firm declined to say anything more about her or her accusation.
