Detectives set out to locate old vics
The NYPD has Harvey Weinstein back in its sights — dispatching detectives to search for evidence against the movie mogul, who has been accused of rape and sex assault by at least three women, The Post has learned.
Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce on Wednesday ordered investigators in the Special Victims Division “to endeavor to identify and locate and interview any potential victims” of the Queensborn Weinstein, a high-ranking police source said.
“He’s a super-predator. His conduct shows he’s been at this a long time, and he’s a professional at it,” another police official said.
“He’s been at this so long, there’s no way there are not other victims out there.
“Imagine how many promises he’s made to these young women who were trying to make it into the industry.”
Boyce’s directive followed a blockbuster report by The New Yorker magazine, which on Tuesday published accusations from three women who accused Weinstein of raping or otherwise sexually abusing them.
One of the women, Lucia Evans, said she was a Middlebury Col- lege student and aspiring actress when Weinstein approached her at the since-shuttered Cipriani Upstairs club in Soho in 2004.
Evans, now 34, said she later accepted an assistant’s invitation to meet Weinstein at his office, where he raised the possibility of casting her in a movie.
“At that point, after that, is when he assaulted me,” Evans said.
“I said, over and over, ‘I don’t want to do this, stop, don’t’ . . . He’s a big guy. He overpowered me.”
Although New York state at the time had a five-year statute of limitations for prosecuting felony sex crimes, the incident is covered by a 2006 law that removed that restriction, officials said.
Evans didn’t return messages, and police sources said she might be outside the country.
Her father declined to comment at his home outside Albany.
In addition to Evans, actress Asia Argento also told The New Yorker that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 1997 at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the French Riviera.
An unidentified woman alleged that Weinstein raped her, but the magazine didn’t say when or where.
In 2015, Weinstein avoided prosecution in the groping of a Filipi- na-Italian model in his Tribeca office, even though cops secretly recorded him apologizing to Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, then 22, while trying to coax her into a room in the Tribeca Grand Hotel.
“Why yesterday you touched my breast?” Gutierrez asked him, according to an audio clip posted online by The New Yorker.
“Oh, please. I’m sorry, Just come on in. I’m used to that,” Weinstein replied.
Meanwhile, the University of Buffalo said it is moving to revoke an honorary doctorate of humane letters it had given Weinstein in 2000, 30 years after he dropped out of the school.
Weinstein, 65, has denied any “nonconsensual sex.”
A spokeswoman didn’t return a request for comment for this story.
Meanwhile, the embattled producer jetted to Arizona on Wednesday to enter a rehab center, a source told The Post.
Weinstein got on a private jet at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles and flew to the Grand Canyon State, despite earlier reports that he would be seeking treatment in Europe.
There are numerous facilities in Arizona and TMZ reported that Weinstein’s team wants him treated at The Meadows.
That rehab center has previously treated Tiger Woods for sex addiction, Selena Gomez for an undisclosed reason, and Kate Moss after she was photographed snorting cocaine, according to previous reports.