Disgraced former Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is embroiled in yet another sex scandal.
According to a report from Reuters, New York prosecutors are investigating “additional violent sexual assaults” they say Weinstein committed and now intend to seek a new indictment after his previous conviction was overturned.
Prosecutor Nicole Blumberg said in a hearing in New York state criminal court in Manhattan that the additional assaults Weinstein allegedly committed were still within the statute of limitations to be charged as crimes.
Weinstein was notoriously found guilty on rape allegations in 2020 in a landmark moment for the #MeToo movement, in which women accused hundreds of men in entertainment, media, politics and other fields of sexual misconduct.
A jury found the 72-year-old Weinstein sexually assaulted former production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006 and raped aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013. They are among more than 80 women who have accused him of sexual misconduct.
He was sentenced to 23 years in prison, but the New York Court of Appeals in April found that Judge James Burke, who presided over the trial, made a critical mistake by allowing three women to testify about alleged sexual assaults by Weinstein that were not part of the criminal charges against him.
Weinstein was also sentenced to 16 years following a separate rape trial in California. That conviction was not affected by the New York court’s decision, and he has not begun serving the California sentence.
Weinstein has continuously denied having non-consensual encounters with anyone and is suffering from a host of medical problems while being held in solitary confinement at New York City’s Rikers Island jail.
Weinstein is due back in court on July 19.
Weinstein was the co-founder of the Miramax film studio, which produced hit movies like “Shakespeare in Love” and “Pulp Fiction.” Weinstein’s own film studio filed for bankruptcy in March 2018.