Harvey Weinstein faces 6 new sexual assault charges in Los Angeles
10/05/2020 4:10 pm PDT
By Cindy Von Quednow, KTLA
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office on Friday announced six additional sexual assault charges against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for incidents dating back to 2004.
The case against Weinstein was amended to include three felony counts each of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation, two counts of sexual battery by restraint and one count of sexual penetration by use of force.
One of the incidents occurred between September 2004 and September 2005, when Weinstein allegedly raped a woman at a hotel in Beverly Hills. He is also accused of raping another woman on two separate occasions in November 2009 and November 2010 at a hotel in Beverly Hills.
Weinstein, 68, was first charged in L.A. County in January in connection with sexually assaulting two women during separate incidents in 2013. In April, the original complaint was amended to include a charge that Weinstein allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel in May 2010. All 11 counts against him stem from incidents that involved five victims between 2004 and 2013, officials said.
With the new charges, Weinstein now faces up to 140 years to life in prison if convicted, officials said.
Local officials are seeking the temporary custody of Weinstein from New York, where he is imprisoned after being convicted of committing a criminal sexual act and third-degree rape there. An extradition hearing, which had been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, is set for Dec. 11.
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