Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to new sex crime charge

Harvey Weinstein, 72, has pleaded not guilty to a new charge of committing a criminal sex act, specifically a first-degree charge involving forced oral or anal sex, allegedly occurring in a lower Manhattan hotel between April 29 and May 6, 2006. This charge is separate from his earlier sex crimes conviction. Prosecutors accuse Weinstein of sexually assaulting a woman in the same hotel in 2006, but no details about the accuser have been released. Weinstein's lawyers have consistently maintained that his relationships with women were consensual, a claim that contradicts the allegations made against him.