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British police are investigating three new allegations of sexual assault against film producer Harvey Weinstein, all made by the same woman.
London's Metropolitan Police force said on Sunday that the woman reported being assaulted in London in 2010, 2011 and 2015.
The force said officers from its Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Command are investigating.
The woman's name has not been made public. The force also did not name Weinstein, in keeping with its policy of not identifying suspects who have not been charged.
But it said the allegations involve a man against whom another accusation was made on Wednesday.
That alleged assault, reported to have taken place in west London during the late 1980s, is also being investigated.
British actress Lysette Anthony says she reported to police on Wednesday that Weinstein raped her in her west London home in the late 1980s.
Anthony, 54, who appears on the British soap opera Hollyoaks, also told the Sunday Times newspaper about the incident.
She said she was left feeling "disgusted and embarrassed" after the attack.
"It was pathetic, revolting," she was quoted as saying in a Thursday interview.
"I remember lying in the bath later and crying."
Corden joke strikes sour note for McGowan
Dozens of women have made allegations of sexual harassment and assault against the movie mogul in recent days, some dating back decades.
Weinstein denies non-consensual sexual activity.
One of his alleged victims, actor Rose McGowan, said the culture remained poisonous, pointing to an joke made by comedian James Corden at an event in LA at the weekend.
"It has been weird this week though, hasn't it, watching Harvey Weinstein in hot water?" Corden said.
"Ask any of the women who watched him take a bath. It's weird, watching Harvey Weinstein in hot water."
McGowan responded on Twitter, saying Corden was a "close friend" of Weinstein.
"Hearing the audience's vile roars & laughs show EXACTLY what kind of HOLLYWOOD you really are," she wrote after sharing a video of Corden's joke.
Cordon later tweeted that he wasn't trying to make light of Weinstein's "inexcusable"" behaviour, saying: "To be clear, sexual assault is no laughing matter."
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences took the almost unprecedented step over the weekend of revoking Weinstein's membership.
It said it did so "to send a message that the era of wilful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behaviour and workplace harassment in our industry is over".
Weinstein, who backed many British movies including Shakespeare in Love and The King's Speech, has also been suspended by the British film academy.
AP
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, police, united-kingdom, united-states
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