Sex traffic hits seen vs. Harv

A federal judge appeared likely Wednesday to allow sex trafficking claims against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein to proceed.

Judge Alvin Hellerstein dismissed arguments from Weinstein attorney Elior Shilo that three of his accusers had not met the legal burden to sustain allegations the once-powerful producer ran a trafficking operation in which he lured women seeking jobs in Hollywood into private encounters where he sexually abused them.

“We are opening the door to anybody who is rich or famous and has a meeting where sex takes place — we are labeling it as sex trafficking,” Shilo said in Manhattan Federal Court.

The attorney said that nothing of value was exchanged between Weinstein, 66, and his accusers — a critical element of a sex trafficking claim.

“I believe there is an exchange of value,” Hellerstein said. “It’s not money. It’s not a typical prostitution deal. But there is something of value.”

A job, he later added, represented just such a thing. Attorney Elizabeth Fagan, who is representing 10 Weinstein accusers including actress Louisette Geiss, emphasized the producer’s alleged efforts to sabotage their careers.

“They had no idea he’d hired spies,” Fagan said. “They did not know he went to casting directors and said ‘don’t cast them.’ ”

Two other judges already allowed separate allegations of sex trafficking against Weinstein (photo) to proceed.

Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote that the “promise of production deals rather than the promise of crack” still met legal standards, while Judge Robert Sweet noted that the claims were not “not an archetypal sex trafficking action” but still gave them the green light.

Weinstein is fighting criminal charges that he raped a woman at a Lexington Ave. Doubletree Hotel in 2013 and forced a sex act on a production assistant in 2006.