Authorities in New York and London are looking into possible criminal sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein. They're going through old records, asking for anyone with information to come forward, and examining at least one new allegation, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
Though dozens of women have told stories of sexual predation by the Hollywood mogul in the past week, beginning with reports in the New York Times and the New Yorker that blew the story open, Weinstein has never been criminally charged.
New York police investigated him in 2015 when a 22-year-old Italian actress and model reported he had groped her, and she was sent into a meeting with him wearing a wire that picked up the now-infamous snippet of conversation from a hotel hallway. But the Manhattan District Attorney determined there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute, and the statute of limitations on the allegations of forcible touching, a misdemeanor, have expired. Read more...
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