Former Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to a new sexual assault charge in a New York court on Sept. 18.
Weinstein’s defense attorney, Arthur Aidala from law firm Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins, said in a statement read outside the court that his client “never forced himself on anyone.”
Aidala said his law firm has yet to learn the identity of the accuser or the specifics of the allegation.
In a statement, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. said his office had brought a fresh indictment against the now 72-year-old Weinstein for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in a lower Manhattan hotel on one occasion between April 29 and May 6, 2006.
Bragg said the charge is one count of Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree, and the investigation is still ongoing.
Lindsay Goldbrum, a lawyer representing the woman, said in a statement that her client doesn’t want to be identified for now but is “fully prepared to speak her truth at trial.” […]
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