Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to new sex crimes charges in New York on Wednesday as he awaits a retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new charges were not immediately released. He is accused of committing criminal sexual conduct.
The jailed former movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges unrelated to the incident that led to his conviction that was overturned in 2020, but the new indictment was kept sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors said the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two at a TriBeCa hotel and one at a residential building in lower Manhattan. Prosecutors said the alleged incidents took place between the mid-2000s and 2016.
However, it is not clear whether any of those allegations form the basis of the new indictment.
As Weinstein prepares for the new charges, he is awaiting a retrial after the New York State Supreme Court overturned his convictions for rape and sexual assault involving two women in 2020. The highest court, known as the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin on November 12.
The appeals court ruled that the judge at the time, whose term expires in 2022, improperly allowed testimony against him based on charges that were not related to the case.
Prosecutors have said they intend to include new charges in the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers have argued it should be a separate case.
Weinstein was also convicted of rape in Los Angeles in 2022 and remains in prison while awaiting a retrial in New York.
Weinstein, who appeared in court in a wheelchair, has been in a Manhattan hospital since September 9 when he underwent emergency surgery to drain fluid from around his heart and lungs.
A judge last week agreed to keep Weinstein indefinitely in the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital, rather than transferring him to the medical unit at New York's Rikers Island prison.
Once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, Weinstein co-founded the film and television production companies Miramax and The Weinstein Company, producing films such as Shakespeare in Love and The Crying Game.
