Jailed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was moved to a New York hospital on Thursday with a number of illnesses together with COVID, his representatives mentioned in a press release.
New York City Correction Department information confirmed on Thursday that Weinstein, 72, was on the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward.
Weinstein, convicted on rape fees in New York and California, suffers from diabetes, hypertension, spinal stenosis, fluid on his coronary heart and lungs, and lately examined constructive for COVID and had contracted double pneumonia, mentioned the assertion issued by publicist Juda Engelmayer, citing Craig Rothfeld, Weinstein’s licensed consultant and jail advisor.
Jurors in Manhattan discovered him responsible of rape fees in February 2020, however the New York Court of Appeals threw out the conviction in April, discovering Weinstein didn’t get a good trial as a result of a decide improperly allowed testimony by accusers he was not formally charged with assaulting.
Weinstein, who has been hospitalized at Bellevue a number of instances, has denied wrongdoing and has denied having non-consensual sexual encounters with anybody.
He could possibly be retried on rape fees in Manhattan as quickly as September. Weinstein’s attorneys mentioned they need to proceed as quickly as potential.
Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office have mentioned they intend to cost Weinstein for “additional violent sexual assaults” after extra girls agreed to testify.
Weinstein’s conviction was a milestone for the #MeToo motion, wherein girls accused lots of of males in leisure, media, politics and different fields of sexual misconduct.
A jury discovered the Miramax movie studio co-founder sexually assaulted former manufacturing assistant Miriam Haley in 2006 and raped aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013. He was sentenced to 23 years in jail.
Weinstein was additionally sentenced to 16 years following a separate rape trial in California.
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