Former Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who awaits a new rape trial in New York, has been hospitalized again.
New York Department of Corrections records show the 72-year-old man transferred from the Rikers Island crime complex to a locked room at Bellevue Hospital.
At Bellevue, he’s being treated for COVID-19, double pneumonia and other health issues, in addition to diabetes, high blood pressure, spinal stenosis and fluid in his center and lungs, his son said Thursday. representative to the Associated Press.
“We continue to express our gratitude to the officials, doctors and nurses” of the city’s public and penal hospital systems “who ensured that Mr. Weinstein was promptly transferred to the Bellevue Hospital Correctional Unit,” he said. press secretary, Juda Engelmayer. who attributed data about Weinstein’s fitness to his criminal advisor, Craig Rothfeld.
Engelmayer did not respond to the Times’ request for comment on Friday.
Weinstein had already been admitted to Bellevue in late April after an appeals court overturned his 2020 rape conviction.
In May, prosecutors asked for a new trial in September at a hearing in a Manhattan courtroom. In the past, Weinstein had given the impression of a walker in court, but at the initial hearing in May he gave the impression of being in a wheelchair driven by a judicial officer. Attorney Arthur Aidala said Weinstein attended the hearing despite being hospitalized and undergoing unspecified tests due to fitness issues.
Aidala added that he had no consideration for his client’s intellectual abilities and described Weinstein as “sharp as a tack. ” As smart as ever,” the AP reported.
Reports then surfaced that the maker of “Shakespeare in Love” and “Pulp Fiction” was receiving special treatment at Bellevue and had been released from the medical center.
Weinstein was first sentenced in 2020 to 23 years in criminal prison in New York after allegedly attacking former production assistant Mimi Haley and aspiring actress Jessica Mann. The state appeals court overturned the conviction last spring, ruling that the ruling on who presided over Weinstein’s 2020 trial hurt his case by allowing four women who accused Weinstein of assault to serve as prosecutors. witnesses when his allegations were not part of the case.
The court ruled that the trial also erred in ruling that prosecutors can simply question Weinstein about unmade and decades-old allegations if he testifies.
Weinstein’s retrial in New York will depend on whether the women who accused him of assault are willing to testify again. Haley said she’s still thinking about it, and prosecutors said Mann is fit to testify, suggesting setting a date for a new trial. after Labor Day.
Weinstein is due back in court on Aug. 7, according to jail records.
The disgraced studio head convicted of rape in Los Angeles in 2022 and remains sentenced to 16 years in criminal prison in California.
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