Harvey Weinstein is now being investigated for rape in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the news on Twitter Thursday evening, stating: ‘Robbery Homicide Div has interviewed a potential sexual assault victim involving Harvey Weinstein in 2013. Investigation ongoing.’
The Los Angeles Times reports that the victim is a 38-year-old Italian-model actress, who claims that the incident allegedly occurred inside her hotel room.
‘He … bullied his way into my hotel room, saying, “I’m not going to [have sex with] you, I just want to talk,”‘ the alleged victim told the Times.
‘Once inside, he asked me questions about myself, but soon became very aggressive and demanding and kept asking to see me naked.’
The actress then stated: ‘He grabbed me by the hair and forced me to do something I did not want to do. He then dragged me to the bathroom and forcibly raped me.’
She is keeping her identity private at this time for the sake of her children, and reveals that she showed Weinstein heir photos at one point during the alleged assault in hopes that it would convince him to stop.
Troubles: Harvey Weinstein is being investigated for rape in the state of California the Los Angeles Police Department announced on Thursday
The model-actress met with detectives for two hours on Thursday according to the Times, and after interviewing the alleged victim officials decided to launch an investigation.
California had a 10 year statute of limitations for rape cases when the incident occurred, meaning that the district attorney will be within their rights to prosecute should detectives deliver enough evidence in the case.
It was after the the 8th annual Los Angeles, Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest in February 2013 that the alleged incident occurred at the Mr. C Beverly Hills Hotel.
The woman accusing Weinstein said they had met once before in Rome through a mutual acquaintance, and that he invited her to his hotel room at that time.
Weinstein did not show any signs to suggest that he remembered the woman, show she was shocked she said when he turned up inside the lobby of her hotel later that night.
She told him she would meet him downstairs, but soon he was knocking at the door.
Weinstein is also being investigated in the state of New York, where two criminal probes have been launched following allegations of sexual assault that date back over 10 years.
A law enforcement source told DailyMail.com that one of these complaints was filed by Lucia Evans, who told The New Yorker that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him in 2004 at his office. The identity of the other individual is not known at this time.
There is no statute of limitations on rape, criminal sexual act or aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree in the state of New York.
The state legislature signed a bill eliminating a statute of limitations for first-degree sexual offenses back in 2006, having previously had a five-year statute for all rape and sexual assault cases.
Weinstein’s legal problems are not just stateside either, with Scotland Yard currently investigating five allegations of sexual assault which have been made by three women across the Atlantic.
The earliest of these alleged assaults dates back to the eighties.