NYPD’s perv probe grows

’04 Tribeca ‘rape’ claim

The NYPD is investigating a woman’s claim that Harvey Weinstein forced himself on her inside his Tribeca office more than a decade ago, The Post has learned.

Lucia Evans, 34, filed a complaint with police late last week, law-enforcement sources said Sunday.

The alleged incident — in which Evans says Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex — occurred in 2004, when New York state had a five-year statute of limitations on felony sex crimes.

But a 2006 law removed that restriction and allowed charges to be brought at any time.

Evans first made the claim to The New Yorker magazine, which last week published a blockbuster exposé that also accused Weinstein of forcibly performing oral sex on actress Asia Argento in 1997 and of raping a third, unidentified woman.

Evans told the magazine that she was a Middlebury College (Vermont) student and aspiring actress when Weinstein introduced himself at the since-shuttered Cipriani Upstairs club in Soho during the summer of 2004.

She said she later went to discuss career opportunities with him ahead of a planned sit-down with a casting executive at his former Miramax production company.

“At that point, after that, is when he assaulted me,” Evans said.

Evans didn’t return a message, and a family member declined comment.

Meanwhile, Scotland Yard has widened its probe of Weinstein to include allegations by three women — including one who said he attacked her three times over five years.

London’s Metropolitan Police reportedly began investigating Weinstein last week following a complaint by a woman who said that he sexually assaulted her during the 1980s.

That woman appears to be British soap-opera actress Lysette Anthony, who on Wednesday tweeted, “Have just reported an historic crime to @MerseyPolice ..feel sick.. so sad..”

The Sunday Times of London subsequently published a front-page report in which the “Hollyoaks” star described Weinstein acting “like a dog” when he pushed his way into her home and raped her.

“It was pathetic, revolting. I remember lying in the bath later and crying,” she said.

In addition to that case, reports said Scotland Yard was investigating claims by a former Miramax employee who told The Mail on Sunday that Weinstein raped her in the basement of his London office in 1992.

Also Sunday, it was reported that Charles Harder, the high-powered civil lawyer Weinstein had hired to sue The New York Times over the Oct. 5 exposé that opened the floodgates, quit the case without filing suit.