{"id":4485,"date":"2017-10-19T18:15:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T01:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2017-10-19T18:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T01:15:25","slug":"los-angeles-police-investigating-harvey-weinstein-in-2013-sexual-assault-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=4485","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles police investigating Harvey Weinstein in 2013 sexual assault allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\"35\">LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; Los Angeles Police Department said on Thursday that it is investigating a 2013 sexual assault allegation against movie producer Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PrimaryAsset_container_2pnvl\" data-reactid=\"36\">\n<div class=\"Image_container_1tVQo\" data-reactid=\"37\">\n<figure tabindex=\"-1\" data-reactid=\"38\">\n<div class=\"LazyImage_container_1Z7A0\" data-reactid=\"39\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"Image_caption_KoNH1\" data-reactid=\"42\">FILE PHOTO: Film producer Harvey Weinstein attends the 2016 amfAR New York Gala at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan, New York, U.S. on February 10, 2016. REUTERS\/Andrew Kelly<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-reactid=\"43\">The LAPD robbery and homicide division interviewed a potential sexual assault victim, spokesman Kevin Maiberger told Reuters. No further information was given on who made the allegations or where the alleged incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"44\">\u201cMr. Weinstein obviously can\u2019t speak to anonymous allegations, but he unequivocally denies allegations of non-consensual sex,\u201d his spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"45\">The move follows allegations reported earlier this month by The New York Times and The New Yorker from a number of women that Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them in incidents dating back to the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"46\">Reuters was unable to independently confirm any of the allegations. Weinstein, 65, has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"47\">The New York Police Department said last week it was investigating an allegation of sexual assault from 2004 against Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"48\">The Los Angeles Times newspaper said Thursday that the allegation made to the LAPD came from an unnamed well-known Italian model and actress, who told police detectives that Weinstein raped her in a room at a Beverly Hills hotel after a film event in February 2013.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"49\">Maiberger said he could not verify the details reported by the Los Angeles Times of the alleged victim or the incident, but said an active investigation was under way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; Los Angeles&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}