New York: Actress Annabella Sciorra will testify against Harvey Weinstein at his trial on rape and other sex-crime charges in January, Manhattan prosecutors said in court on Monday.

Annabella Sciorra in 2011. Credit:AP

Sciorra, who is known for her work in The Sopranos, has publicly accused Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in her Gramercy Park apartment in 1993, but the incident was too old to be prosecuted under state law.

Now, however, the Manhattan district attorney has obtained a new indictment from a grand jury that will let Sciorra tell her story on the witness stand under the legal theory that her testimony will support charges of predatory sexual assault, even though her alleged encounter with the producer happened too long ago to be charged separately as rape, prosecutors said.

Weinstein, 67, once one of Hollywood's most powerful producers, pleaded not guilty to the new indictment in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on Monday. He maintains his sexual encounters with Sciorra and two other women were consensual.