Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crime charges days after being rushed to hospital for emergency heart surgery.
The disgraced movie mogul, 72, is facing new charges ahead of his retrial in New York, however the indictment will remain under seal until Weinstein is arraigned on the new charges on September 18.
Weinstein is recovering at a Manhattan hospital following emergency surgery to remove fluid on his heart and lungs, and was not present at a hearing on Thursday over the fresh charges.
It came as prosecutors retrying Weinstein’s overturned rape conviction disclosed last week that they had begun presenting evidence of up to three additional allegations against Weinstein, dating as far back as the mid-2000s.
Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crime charges days after being rushed to hospital for emergency heart surgery
The alleged crimes in the new indictment reportedly include sexual assaults at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, now known as the Roxy Hotel, and in a Lower Manhattan residential building between late 2005 and mid-2006.
The indictment also includes an alleged sexual assault at a Tribeca hotel in May 2016.
Because the indictment is under seal, it was not known whether the new charges involved some or all of the additional allegations.