Harvey Weinstein charged with new sex crimes ahead of retrial in New York

• According to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, additional sex crimes charges have been filed against Harvey Weinstein ahead of his retrial in New York.
• The charges remain sealed until Weinstein's trial, scheduled for September 18.
• Weinstein, 72, was absent from the hearing because he is recovering from emergency heart surgery.

Disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been charged with additional sex crimes ahead of his retrial in New York, Manhattan prosecutors said at a hearing on Thursday.

The indictment remains sealed until Weinstein's trial on September 18.

Weinstein, 72, is recovering from emergency heart surgery at a Manhattan hospital on Monday and was not present at Thursday's hearing.

Harvey Weinstein was taken from prison to hospital to undergo emergency heart surgery

The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced at a recent court hearing that prosecutors had begun presenting evidence to a grand jury on up to three additional allegations against Weinstein dating back to the mid-2000s.

Prosecutors had sought to retry Weinstein after his 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction was overturned by an appeals court earlier this year. It remains to be seen whether the new charges will be included in the retrial, as prosecutors hope, or whether the court will treat them as a separate case.

The new charges come after British prosecutors announced last week that they would no longer pursue sexual assault charges against Weinstein, who was the most high-profile perpetrator of the #MeToo movement in 2017, when women began coming forward with accounts of his behavior.

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The 72-year-old co-founder of the film and television production company Miramax has long held the view that all sexual activity is consensual.

He is scheduled to appear in Manhattan court for a hearing on September 12. His new trial is tentatively scheduled for November.