The actress Annabella Sciorra will testify against Harvey Weinstein at his trial on rape and other sex-crime charges next year, Manhattan prosecutors said in court on Monday.
Ms. Sciorra, who is known for her work in “The Sopranos,” has publicly accused Mr. Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in her Gramercy Park apartment in 1993, but the incident was too old to be prosecuted under state law.
Now, however, the Manhattan district attorney has obtained a new indictment from a grand jury that will let Ms. Sciorra tell her story on the witness stand under the legal theory that her testimony will support charges of predatory sexual assault, even though it happened too long ago to be charged separately as a rape, prosecutors said.
Mr. Weinstein, once one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers, pleaded not guilty to the new indictment in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Monday. He maintains his encounters with Ms. Sciorra and two other women were consensual. His trial has been postponed until Jan. 6.
Mr. Weinstein also faces charges based on the testimony of the two other accusers: an unidentified woman who told the police Mr. Weinstein overpowered her in a hotel room in Midtown Manhattan in March 2013, and Mimi Haleyi, a production assistant, who said Mr. Weinstein forcibly held her down and performed oral sex on her at his Manhattan apartment in 2006.
The predatory sexual assault charges require prosecutors to prove that Mr. Weinstein committed a serious sexual assault against at least two women.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-annabella-sciorra-trial-rape.html
2019-08-26 14:38:00Z
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