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The Independent UK
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Harriet Agerholm

Harvey Weinstein: Scotland Yard investigates three more sexual assault claims in UK

Scotland Yard is investigating three more allegations of sexual assault against disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.

A specialist unit is looking into the alleged assaults, which purportedly took place against one victim in London in 2010, 2011 and 2015.

These follow another allegation against the film mogul by a different victim that were passed to Scotland Yard this week by Merseyside police, relating to an alleged assault in London in the late 1980s.

A Met spokesman said: "On 11 October, Merseyside police referred an allegation of sexual assault to the Metropolitan Police Service.

“It is alleged that a man sexually assaulted a woman in the late 1980s in west London. On 14 October, further allegations were made against the same man. It is alleged that the man sexually assaulted a woman in Westminster in 2010 and 2011, and in Camden in 2015."

He added: “Officers from the Met's Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Command are investigating the allegations.

“There has been no arrest at this stage.”

New York police are also investigating rape and sexual assault allegations against the film producer.

Mr Weinstein, 65, has denied any allegations of non-consensual sex.

The claims were revealed after two separate  allegations of rape were made against Weinstein in the UK on Sunday.

British actress Lysette Anthony, said the producer attacked her at her London home in the late 1980s, while another woman – who used the pseudonym Sarah Smith – said she was raped in 1992.

Ms Anthony, who appears in soap opera Hollyoaks, told The Sunday Times she met Weinstein in New York when she was starring in 1982 film Krull. The pair became friends and one evening she went his house in London.

“The next thing I knew he was half undressed and he grabbed me. It was the last thing I expected and I fled. I blamed it on myself because I was tired, a bit drunk and ­therefore so completely off my guard,” she said.

The actor claimed Weinstein began stalking her and turned up at her house uninvited. Ms Anthony, 54, told the paper she gave video evidence about the assault to police in London.

Ms Smith, a former Miramax employee, told The Mail on Sunday Mr Weinstein raped her in a basement flat below the entertainment company's offices in London. She was reportedly considering making a complaint to police.

More than two dozen women – including actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan – have made allegations against the Oscar-winning producer.

The organisation behind the Oscars on Saturday voted to expel Mr Weinstein, saying the "era of wilful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behaviour and workplace harassment in our industry is over".

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