The NYPD has Harvey Weinstein back in its sights — dispatching detectives to search for evidence against the disgraced movie mogul who’s been by at least three women, The Post has learned.
Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce on Wednesday ordered investigators in the Special Victims Division “to endeavor to identify and locate and inte🦂rview any potential victims” of the disgraced movie producer, a h𓂃igh-ranking police source said.
“He’s a super predator. His condu♑ct shows he’s been at this a long time, and he’s a professional at it,” another police official said.
“He’s been at this so long, there’s no way the♚re are not other victims out there. Imagine how many promises he’s made to these young women who were trying to ꦅmake it into the industry.”
Boyce’s directiv♐e followed a blockbuster , which on Tuesday published accusations from three women who accused Weinstein of raping or otherwise sexually abusing them.
One of the women, Lucia E🐷vans, said she was a Middlebury College student and aspiring actress when Weinstein approached her at the since-shuttered Cipriani Upstairs club i🌌n Soho in 2004.
Evans, now 34, said she later accepted an assistant’s invitation to meet W🦂einstein at his office, where he raised the possibility of casting her in a movie.
“At that p✃oint, af🤪ter that, is when he assaulted me,” Evans said.
“I said, over and over, ‘I don’t want to do this, stop, don’t….He’s a big guy. He overpowered me.”
Although New York at the time had a fi𝔍ve-year statute of limitations for prosecuting felony sex crimes, the incident is covered by a 2006 law that removed ꦺthat restriction, officials said.
Evans didn’t return messages, and police sources said she may be outꦡside the c🙈ountry.
Her d☂ad declined to comment at his home outside Albany.
In addition to Evans, actress Asia Argentoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ also told the 𝓰New Yorker that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 1997 inside the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the French Riviera, and an unidentified woman alleged that Weinstein raped her, but the magazine didn’t say when or where.
In 2015, Weinstein avoided prosecution in the groping of a Filipina-Italian model inside his Tribeca office, even though cops secretly recorded him apologizing to Ambra Batillana Gut𒅌ierrez, then 22, while trying to coax her into a room inside the Tribeca Graꦿnd Hotel.
“Why yesterday you touched my breast?” Gutierrez asked him, according to an audio cꦐlip posted online by the New Yorker.
“Oh, please. I’m sorry, Just come on in. I’m us🌸ed to that,” Weinstein rep🦩lied.
Embattled Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Wednesday defended his decision not to charge Weinstein, saying: “Ouꦯr sex-crimes prosecutors made the determination that this was not going to be a provable case and the decision was made not to go forward.”
At one point, Vance ver💧y familiarly referred to Weinstein by his first name only.
“We’re focused on the facts, not whether people liked Harvey,” t💝he DA told reporters.
NYPD sources have expressed outrag𝓡e over Vance’s decision, and one cop said that if presented with new cases, “The feeling is, this time they wouldn’t be so quick not to charge.”
Weinstein, meanwhile, hired high-powered Los Angeles criminal-defense lawyer Blair Berk to 🤪represent him, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Her list of trou🐽bled celebrity clients includes Mel Gibso♓n, Lindsay Lohan, Kiefer Sutherland and Kanye West.
Also, ඣthe University of Buffalo said it wa⛎s moving to revoke an honorary “doctorate of humane letters” it awarded Weinstein in 2000, 30 years after he dropped out.
In announcing its desire to strip Weinstein of the honor, the school noted that he “personally never made a gift to the university,” but that the Walt Disney Co. donated $22,750 on behalf of 🍎the Miramax film company after ♊buying it from Weinstein and his younger brother, Bob.
Weinstein has denied any “non-con🥀sensual sex.” A spokeswoman didn’t return a request for🦄 comment for this story.
Additional reporting by Tamar Lapin and Kirstan Conley