HARVEY’S WEIN

‘Pressure’ to prosecute

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer met behind closed doors with Manhattan prosecutors and a judge Tuesday to gripe about the case’s publicity and claim there is “inappropriate pressure’’ being put on the DA’s Office to prosecute the disgraced movie mogul.

The public, including the press, was not allowed to attend the 90minute conference, and nothing from it was entered into the public court record. The Post and other news organizations are now fighting for a copy of a transcript of the minutes from the proceeding.

Weinstein’s lawyer, Ben Brafman, told reporters that the discussion did not occur in open court be- cause it involved an ongoing grand-jury proceeding, which is conducted in secret.

“I can say on a public record . . . that, by virtue of some of the publicity that has occurred over the weekend, that the ability of people to keep an open mind is of concern to me,” Brafman said, apparently referring to grand jurors.

Weinstein, 66, turned himself in to authorities Friday and was charged with rape, sexual abuse and criminal sex assault for two alleged attacks on women in Manhattan.

More than 80 other women also have accused the fallen Hollywood powerhouse of everything from rape to sexual harassment.

At the time of Weinstein’s arrest, Brafman tried to defend his client by saying, “Mr. Weinstein did not invent the casting couch in Hollywood’’ — creating an uproar himself.

Brafman told reporters Tuesday he also complained in the meeting that “the pressure that is being brought to bear on the District Attorney’s Office — demanding an indictment or the prosecution of Mr. Weinstein — is inappropriate pressure.

“It is unprecedented. It troubles me,’’ he said.

He said he asked for the closed- door meeting with top Assistant DA Joan Illuzzi and Manhattan Supreme Court Judge James Burke, who is overseeing the Weinstein grand jury, “to make it clear I am not happy with those issues.’’

Weinstein is charged with forcing then-aspiring actress Lucia Evans to perform oral sex on him in his Tribeca office in 2004.

The other case involves an unnamed woman who says Weinstein raped her twice in a Midtown DoubleTree Hotel in March 2014.

“As I said publicly to the New York Post over the weekend, this is an extraordinary allegation, made by someone with whom Mr. Weinstein enjoyed a 10-year ‘consensual’ sexual relationship,” Brafman said of the second woman.