UK police receive three new assault claims against Weinstein
Posted October 15, 2017 8:02 am.
Last Updated October 15, 2017 9:03 am.
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LONDON, UK (NEWS 1130) – British police are investigating three new allegations of sexual assault against film producer Harvey Weinstein.
London’s Metropolitan Police force says the same woman was the victim of the assaults that allegedly took place in 2010, 2011 and 2015. Today it said officers from the Child Abuse and Sexual Offenses Command are investigating.
The force did not name Weinstein, in keeping with its policy of not identifying suspects who have not been charged. But it said the allegations involve a man against whom another was made on Wednesday. That case also is being investigated.
Actress Lysette Anthony says she reported to police Wednesday that Weinstein raped her in London in the late 1980s.
Anthony told the Sunday Times newspaper she was left feeling “disgusted and embarrassed” after the attack.
She is the latest in a long list of women who have come forward in recent weeks to say Weinstein had sexually assaulted or harassed actresses over his long career. Some have claimed he threatened their careers if they didn’t comply with his demands.
Weinstein is currently in rehab.
A week ago he was fired from the Weinstein Co., which will now undergo a name change as it struggles to survive the current scandal. Yesterday Weinstein was also expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after the board held an emergency meeting.
The academy said in a statement that its board of governors “voted well in excess of the required two-thirds majority to immediately expel him from the Academy.”
Weinstein’s brother and co-founder of the company that now finds itself in crisis says he’s in “a waking nightmare” and had no idea “the type of predator” his brother is accused of being.
