Harvey Weinstein has been hospitalized just days after his 2020 rape conviction in New York was overturned, his lawyer has said.
Arthur Aidala said the disgraced movie mogul was moved to a Manhattan hospital on April 26. Harvey Weinstein remains in jail after being separately convicted of rape in Los Angeles.
Arthur Aidala said his client was “somewhat of a train wreck health wise”.
“It seems like he needs a lot of help, physically. He’s got a lot of problems,” he told AP.
Later, in a statement to CBS, Arthur Aidala said Harvey Weinstein had been taken to hospital after the New York City Department of Correction determined that he needed “immediate medical attention”.
“A myriad of tests are being performed on Harvey and he is being kept for observation,” he said.
A spokesperson with the corrections department said that Harvey Weinstein remained in custody at Bellevue Hospital.
He was moved on April 26 to the Rikers Island jail complex from the Mohawk Correctional Facility where he had been since 2023.
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Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers have previously said the one-time movie producer has had a series of health problems, including diabetes, sleep apnea and issues affecting his heart and eyes. In 2020, he spent five days in hospital for ongoing heart problems and chest pains.
Arthur Aidala said he is scheduled to meet Harvey Weinstein on April 29 before his court appearance on May 1st, the Associated Press reports.
Earlier in the week, the New York Court of Appeals overturned Harvey Weinstein’s conviction on the basis that he did not receive a fair trial, saying that prosecutors in the pivotal #MeToo case called witnesses whose accusations were not part of the charges against him.
The court said that meant Harvey Weinstein was unfairly tried for past behaviour, and ordered a new trial.
At his trial in 2020, Harvey Weinstein was convicted of assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and raping Jessica Mann, a former aspiring actress, in 2013. He was jailed for 23 years.
Harvey Weinstein’s defense team said encounters between the movie executive and the accusers had been consensual.
Separately, Harvey Weinstein was sentenced in California last year to 16 years for raping an Italian model and actress in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2013.
Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years
in prison for rape and assault.
The disgraced Hollywood producer was found guilty in a trial in New York
last month.
Hervey Weinstein, 67, appeared in court on March 11 in a wheelchair.
The producer’s lawyers had appealed for leniency, saying even the minimum
sentence of five years could be a “life sentence”.
However, prosecutors argued Harvey Weinstein should be given the maximum
possible sentence given his “lifetime of abuse” towards women and
“lack of remorse” for his actions.
Harvey Weinstein addressed the court for the first time on March 11, saying
he had “deep remorse” but described him and other men as
“totally confused” by events in comments seen as critical to the
#MeToo movement.
Dozens of women have come forward
with allegations of misconduct, including rape, against Harvey Weinstein since
October 2017.
He has consistently denied
wrongdoing and these were the first charges to make it to trial.
Harvey Weinstein still faces further
criminal charges, for rape and assault, in Los Angeles.
His lawyers have vowed to appeal
against his conviction.
Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of
committing a first-degree criminal sexual act against production assistant
Miriam Haley in 2006 and of the third-degree rape of aspiring actress Jessica
Mann in 2013.
New York jurors acquitted Weinstein
of the most serious charges, of predatory sexual assault, which could have seen
him given an even longer jail term.
All six women who testified against
him during his trial sat together as he was sentenced and told to register as a
sex offender.
The two women he was convicted of assaulting both read out victim impact
statements in court.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. thanked the court for the tough
sentence, saying it put “predators and abusive partners” elsewhere in
society “on notice”.
Speaking outside court, Gloria Allred, who represents three of the accusers,
held up a sign with the words: “This
is what justice looks like.”
“For all those who are still
preying on women, who want to engage in the high risk-taking of harming women
and thinking you’ll get away with it, that gamble is likely not to pay off for
you anymore,” she added.
“And if you’re a high-profile
figure, don’t expect anything but equal justice.”
The US Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) praised the significant prison term Harvey Weinstein was given.
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