Nicolas Cage is pretty much already there. I don't know how his career tanked so hard in the last few years. Didn't Cage and Spacey win their Oscars in the same year too?

New York (AFP) - Manhattan's district attorney is preparing a criminal case against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein which he could present to a grand jury as early as next week, US media reported Tuesday.

The reports, quoting anonymous law enforcement officials, came after police confirmed they had a credible rape allegation against the embattled producer and were gathering evidence for a possible arrest warrant.

District Attorney Cyrus Vance plans to present the case to a grand jury and wait for an indictment, NBC television and the New York Post tabloid reported. The move could come as early as next week, they reported.

His office was not immediately reachable for comment Tuesday.

Police referred AFP to the district attorney's office.

"Boardwalk Empire" actress Paz de la Huerta accused Weinstein of raping her twice at her New York apartment in late 2010. Her claims were published in Vanity Fair magazine on Thursday and she has been interviewed by police.

"She put forth a credible and detailed narrative to us," NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce told reporters last Friday.

"We have an actual case here," he added. "Mr Weinstein is out of state. We would need an arrest warrant to arrest him. So right now we're gathering our evidence."

De la Huerta's allegations are at least the third Weinstein case to have been investigated by New York police in recent years. Boyce did not rule out others.

Vance's office, which has been working closely with police, last week assigned a senior sex crimes prosecutor to the case.

Around 100 women have come forward to accuse Weinstein of sexual misconduct since a New York Times expose was published in early October. The accusations range from harassment to rape. Weinstein denies any non-consensual relations.

Since early October, Hollywood stalwarts like Harvey Weinstein,Kevin Spacey,Brett Ratner andDustin Hoffman have been called out in an endless wave of sexual harassment and assault allegations across multiple decades. Among the growing chorus of women who have spoken out on the ensuing scandals, Molly’s Game actress Jessica Chastain recently entered the fray with a provocative tweet regarding the storied allegations of abuse levied against X-Men franchise writer, director and producer Bryan Singer.

“Let us not forget,” she tweeted on Friday, along with a link to an article that reviewed many of the well-known accusations against Singer. While doing press for Molly’s Game, reporters from The Daily Beast and other outlets asked Chastain about the tweet and its followup, which many saw as an especially bold move given the fact that Chastain has been cast in Simon Kinberg’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which Singer is executive producing. “I do not feel beholden to anything,” she explained:

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Jon Bernthal says he was privy to aspects of Kevin Spacey‘s alleged inappropriate conduct before the slew of recent sexual assault or harassment accusations were leveled against the star.

The actor told SiriusXM, “I just remember losing a ton of respect for him,” when asked to discuss their time working together on the summer hit Baby Driver.

“I remember being on that set and I remember him really rubbing me the wrong way,” recalled Bernthal. “And it’s funny, anybody who I was working with at the time, and people in my life remember me saying it and a lot of people reached out to me when that happened.”

“The kind of man he was when I saw him, working with, made me lose all respect for him and I was enormously disappointed,” said Bernthal of finally working alongside Spacey in the 2017 film.

He further elaborated, “Going onto that set and working with him, I wasn’t there much and I wasn’t really in a situation to judge, but when I was there he really rubbed me the wrong way. I thought he was a bit of a bully… I didn’t really care for the way he was behaving toward some of the other people on set.”

“I think he was acting toward people in a way that where I remember, at the time, thinking, man if that was a woman that he was talking to I would have done something, I would have said something,” said the actor. “And I was really happy to sort of get out of there.”

Bernthal noted, though, that he never witnessed behavior from Spacey like some of the sexual conduct allegations that he’s now facing.

In a BuzzFeed article posted Oct. 30, actor Anthony Rapp alleged that Spacey made inappropriate sexual advances toward him when he was only 14. Hours later Spacey, 58, apologized for his behavior – which allegedly occurred at a party in 1986 — and came out as gay.

Further allegations have since emerged, including a report from CNN in which eight people who currently work or previously worked on House of Cards claimed that star and executive producer created a “toxic” work environment through sexual harassment and “predatory” behavior.

Last week, Netflix officially parted ways with Spacey, announcing that House of Cards‘ final season will be without the actor.

A representative for the 58-year-old House of Cards star has told PEOPLE that Spacey is “is taking the time necessary to seek evaluation and treatment.”