Three more sex assault allegations against movie mogul

LONDON: Scotland Yard is investigating three more allegations of sexual assault against disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.

A specialist unit is looking into the alleged assaults, which purportedly took place against one victim in London in 2010, 2011 and 2015.

These follow another allegation against the film mogul by a different victim that were passed to Scotland Yard this week by Merseyside police, relating to an alleged assault in London in the late 1980s.

A police spokesperson said: “It is alleged that a man sexually assaulted a woman in the late 1980s in west London.

“On October 14, further allegations were made against the same man. It is alleged that the man sexually assaulted a woman in Westminster in 2010 and 2011, and in Camden in 2015.”

He added: “Officers from the Met’s Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Command are investigating the allegations.

“There has been no arrest at this stage.”

New York police are also investigating rape and sexual assault allegations against the film producer.

Weinstein, 65, has denied any allegations of non-consensual sex.

The claims were revealed after two separate allegations of rape were made against Weinstein in the UK.

British actress Lysette Anthony said the producer attacked her at her London home in the late 1980s, while another woman – who used the pseudonym Sarah Smith – said she was raped in 1992.

Anthony, who appears in the soap opera Hollyoaks, told The Sunday Times she met Weinstein in New York when she was starring in the 1982 film Krull.

The pair became friends and one evening she went to his house in London.

“The next thing I knew he was half undressed and he grabbed me. It was the last thing I expected and I fled.

“I blamed it on myself because I was tired, a bit drunk and therefore so completely off my guard,” she said.