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Harvey Weinstein to be charged in UK over assault claims

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The Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement that charges have been authorized against Harvey Weinstein, 70, following a review of evidence. Police said the alleged offenses against the woman, now in her 50s, took place in during July and August 1996. As reported by the AP:

Harvey Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence for rape after his 2020 conviction in New York for offenses against two women

LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors said Wednesday they have authorized police to charge ex-film producer Harvey Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in 1996.

FILE – Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan court in New York, as jury deliberations continue in his rape trial, Feb. 21, 2020. British prosecutors say they have authorized police to charge ex-film producer Harvey Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in 1996. The Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement “charges have been authorized” against Weinstein, 70, following a review of evidence gathered by London’s Metropolitan Police in its investigation. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

The Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement that “charges have been authorized” against Weinstein, 70, following a review of evidence gathered by London’s Metropolitan Police.

After revelations about Weinstein emerged in 2017, British police said they were investigating multiple allegations of sexual assault against Weinstein that reportedly took place between the 1980s and 2015.

Unlike many other countries, Britain does not have a statute of limitations for rape or sexual assault.

Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence for rape after his 2020 conviction in New York for offenses against two women.

FILE – Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse as jury deliberations continue in his rape trial on Feb. 19, 2020, in New York. British prosecutors said Wednesday, June 8, 2022, they have authorized police to charge ex-film producer Harvey Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in 1996. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

He is jailed in California, where he was extradited last year, and is awaiting trial on charges he assaulted five women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills from 2004 to 2013.

Weinstein, the co-founder of the Miramax entertainment company and The Weinstein Company film studio, was once one of the most powerful people in Hollywood, having produced films such as “Pulp Fiction” and “The Crying Game.”

The announcement in England on Wednesday came two weeks after U.K. prosecutors authorized police to charge actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men. The alleged incidents took place in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and one in western England in April 2013.

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