Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he raped one woman and sexually assaulted another.
Looking ashen and wearing a dark suit and black tie, the disgraced movie mogul mumbled, “Not guilty” to felony charges of rape and criminal sex act before Judge James Burke in Manhattan Supreme Court.
He faces up to 25 years behind bars if convicted.
Weinstein was indicted last week on the charges related to two incidents — one in 2004, when he allegedly forced actress Lucia Evans to perform oral sex, and in 2013, when he allegedly raped a second woman at a DoubleTree hotel in Manhattan.
Weinstein’s attorney Benjamin Brafman blasted the charges in court.
“However reprehensible the crime of rape is, it is equally reprehensible to falsely accuse someone of rape,” he told the judge.
Joan Illuzzi, the top prosecutor handling the case, fired back against Brafman’s comments last month that “Weinstein did not create the casting couch in Hollywood.”
“It was not the people who went out to the courtroom steps and starting talking about a casting couch, undermining the seriousness of these charges,” she said. “Any denigration of these victims, any playing-down of these victims, is inappropriate.”
Brafman swore off using the term “casting couch” but “not because it’s inappropriate but because of the outcry.”
“My job is to defend specific allegations of criminal conduct,” he explained, “not specific behavior” of Hollywood in general.
Brafman also said he will examine whether to ask to sever the two cases.
Celebrated women’s rights lawyer Gloria Allred — who represents some of Weinstein’s scores of accusers in their civil cases — was seated in the courtroom.
She declined to comment when asked if she represented either of the two women in the criminal case.
Late last month, Weinstein, 66, hobbled into a Manhattan precinct to turn himself in on the serious charges.
More than 80 women have accused the fallen moviemaker of sexual misconduct — including three who came forward last week. One of them, Melissa Thompson, claims Weinstein raped her at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in 2011.
On Tuesday, Weinstein arrived at court to a swarm of media and said nothing on his way in and out of the Centre Street building.
He only briefly smirked at photographers when he arrived.
The once-powerful producer is free on $1 million bail and must wear a GPS monitoring ankle bracelet.
His next court date is Sept. 20.