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Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has spoken out from behind bars to deny his youngest accuser's claim that he sexually assaulted her when she was just 16.
Weinstein is currently incarcerated at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, where he is awaiting another trial on felony charges following his conviction for third-degree rape and criminal sexual assault in New York.
In remarks to DailyMail.com on Friday, Weinstein broke his silence to deny allegations made by Kaja Sokola, a former model who gave a rare interview published earlier this week.
Sokola was a 16-year-old teen model living in New York in September 2002, when she says that Weinstein took her to his SoHo apartment and attacked her -- allegations that she detailed in a 2019 lawsuit, and the recent interview with Rolling Stone.
'I know where I stand and how I am seen, nonetheless, it doesn't make every allegation against me true or factual,' Weinstein said in a statement through his representative. 'There is no truth to me having met this woman in 2002.'
Sokola's attorneys Douglas Wigdor and Kevin Mintzer fired back, telling DailyMail.com: 'Mr. Weinstein should focus his energies on his next multi-victim rape trial in California.'
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has spoken out from behind bars to deny his youngest accuser's claim that he sexually assaulted her when she was just 16
Kaja Sokola, now 35, was a 16-year-old teen model living in New York in September 2002, when she says that Weinstein took her to his SoHo apartment and attacked her
Sokola's lawsuit against Weinstein is one of the few remaining in the scandal -- and it also names Disney, which owned Weinstein's production company Miramax from 1993 to 2010.
Most other suits pertaining to misconduct allegations after 2005 were rolled together and settled in Weinstein's bankruptcy, and most claims from before 2005 were past the statute of limitations.
However, Sokola filed her lawsuit under a 2019 New York law that offered a temporary 'lookback window' to victims of child sexual abuse, allowing them to file civil suits even if the normal statute of limitations had expired.
Weinstein's legal team insists that if he did meet Sokola, it could not have been until 2005, when she was 19 and thus not eligible to sue under the Child Victims Act's lookback window.
'I understand the motivations of trying to use the statute for a civil suit, but it never happened,' said Weinstein.
Weinstein's spokesman told DailyMail.com that the film producer did not own the SoHo apartment described in Sokola's lawsuit until 2005.
Weinstein is currently incarcerated at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, where he is awaiting another trial on felony charges
Weinstein's attorney Imran H. Ansari also argued in
