Harvey Weinstein’s health is taking another turn, as the once-praised film producer and now-convicted sex offender is back at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital.
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He reportedly received “alarming” blood test results.
Weinstein’s attorney, Imran H. Ansari, revealed to TMZ that the test, which was taken at Rikers Island, had to do his client’s leukemia diagnosis. Although the results were deemed concerning, his condition is treatable.
Weinstein was diagnosed with leukemia in October. Over the past year, he was hospitalized for COVID and double pneumonia. He also underwent emergency heart surgery.
The blood test results surfaced just after Weinstein filed a lawsuit over “deplorable conditions” he continues to be subjected to while in prison on Rikers Island.
Ansari pointed out that Weinstein has “been suffering from a lack of adequate medical care.” He is also living in “deplorable and inhumane conditions” as a Rikers Island inmate.
“His deprivation of care is not only medical malpractice but a violation of his constitutional rights,” Ansari stated.
Weinstein’s spokesperson, Juda Engelamyer, also released a statement. “Mr. Weinstein, who is suffering from a number of illnesses, including leukemia, has been deprived the medical attention that someone in his medical state deserves, prisoner or not. In many ways, this mistreatment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.”
Weinstein is now undergoing “emergent treatment” at Bellevue Hospital. He will remain in the hospital’s care until his condition is stabilized.
Harvey Weinstein Will Return to Prison After His Condition Stabilizes, Waits for Trial for His Sex Crimes Charges
Harvey Weinstein is set to return to Rikers Island while awaiting a retrial for his sex crimes charges. His New York conviction was previously overturned.
Although his conviction was overturned, Weinstein is still in prison after being convicted in a separate trial. He received one count each of forcible rape, forced oral copulation, and sexual penetration by a foreign object in Los Angeles.
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison with that conviction.
However, this past June, Weinstein’s legal team argued in an appeal that he didn’t receive a fair trial.
The attorneys claimed that the judge who presided over the case deprived Weinstein of his “constitutional rights to present a defense and led to a miscarriage of justice.”
They further alleged the judge was wrong to allow jurors to know about Weinstein’s previous, now-overturned convictions in New York. The information caused the jury to be “unfairly prejudiced” by the testimony of those who alleged they were assaulted by Weinstein.
“The introduction of this excessive, cumulative, and remote evidence of prior ‘sexual assaults’ simply signaled to the jury that the Defendant was a bad man,” the lawyers argued. “Who should be convicted of something irrespective of whether the prosecution proved its case.”