Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to three new sexual assault charges. The former film producer appeared in court in New York on Monday (9 July) to deny the charges on which he was indicted in early July.

This most recent plea relates to an alleged sexual assault that took place in 2006. On 2 July, a grand jury charged Weinstein with three offences connected to that assault: one count of a criminal sexual act in the first degree and two counts of predatory sexual assault.

In a statement, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr said the predatory sexual assault charges carry “a minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment”.

Vance said that Weinstein had now been indicted “on some of the most serious sexual offences that exist under New York’s penal law”, and praised “the extraordinary courage exhibited by the survivors who have come forward”.

Weinstein is now facing trial for sex crimes against three different women. In late May, he handed himself into police in Manhattan to be charged with first- and third-degree rape against one woman and committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree against another.

Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to sexually assaulting a third woman