Former movie producer and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of sexual assault Wednesday in a Los Angeles court.
The charges stem from allegations from five women, who allege the incidents occurred between 2004 and 2013. The women, all aspiring actresses and models, say Weinstein assaulted them at hotels in West LA and in Beverly Hills.
Weinstein, 69, was extradited to Los Angeles from New York on Tuesday to face the new sexual assault counts, including rape, forcible oral copulation, and sexual battery by restraint and sexual penetration by use of force.
He is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence and is appealing his 2020 conviction that he raped an aspiring actress in 2013 in a Manhattan hotel room and forcibly performed oral sex on TV and film production assistant in 2006 at his Manhattan apartment.
Weinstein faces up to 140 years to life in state prison if convicted as charged on the California charges, according to the District Attorney's Office.
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