Harvey Weinstein will reportedly turn himself in and face sexual assault charges in New York
- Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities on Friday, according to The New York Daily News.
- It's related to a probe by the Manhattan District Attorney's office and the NYPD into allegations of sexual assault against Weinstein.
- Weinstein has denied any wrongdoing in the Evans allegation and numerous others that have been reported.
Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities on Friday in relation to a probe by the Manhattan District Attorney's office and the NYPD into allegations of sexual assault against him, according to The New York Daily News.
The disgraced Hollywood producer will face a sexual assault charge related to at least one accuser, Lucia Evans, according to the Daily News. Evans has alleged that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him, and though the allegation is from 2004, the statue of limitations does not apply here, The Daily News reported.
Evans was one of the women in an October New Yorker profile on Weinstein who accused him of sexual assault. A bombshell New York Times story that same month detailed three decades of sexual harassment allegations by women in Hollywood against the producer. These two news stories, and dozens of follow-ups, led Weinstein to leave the business and left his company, The Weinstein Company, in shambles.
Evans told The New Yorker that in 2004, when she was an aspiring actress and college student, she met Weinstein at the offices of Miramax during the day (the company he ran before The Weinstein Company), and that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him despite her protests.
Weinstein has denied any wrongdoing in the Evans allegation and numerous others that have been reported.
Weinstein's attorney Benjamin Brafman declined to comment to Business Insider about Weinstein's possible surrender to authorities.