Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is back in a New York City hospital for “emergency treatment” following an “alarming blood test,” his lawyer said Monday.
Weinstein, 72, will remain hospitalized “until his condition stabilizes,” his attorney, Imran Ansari, said in a statement.
Ansari added that Weinstein is “suffering from a lack of adequate medical care and enduring deplorable and inhumane conditions on Rikers Island, has been transported to Bellevue Hospital for emergent treatment due to an alarming blood test result that requires immediate medical attention.”
The fallen movie mogul is being held at Rikers Island while awaiting a new trial on sex assault charges.
He has been hospitalized a handful of times in recent months following a slew of serious ailments — including emergency heart surgery and a recent cancer diagnosis.
His lawyers and reps have previously railed against his medical care while in custody and has threatened to sue New York City for alleged medical negligence.
“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,” his spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said.
“In many ways, this mistreatment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.”
Ansari, his attorney, added, “His deprivation of care is not only medical malpractice, but a violation of his constitutional rights.”
Weinstein — the original poster boy for the #MeToo movement — has argued that the city’s refusal to provide him ongoing treatment at Bellevue will prevent him from attending his own trials.
The fallen Tinseltown powerhouse was convicted in 2020 of first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York — but his conviction was overturned on appeal in April.
He is now being retried on those charges.
Weinstein also remains behind bars as he appeals a separate 2022 conviction in the Big Apple for three sexual-assault charges. He was recently charged, too, with first-degree criminal sex act after prosecutors alleged that he forcibly performed oral sex on a woman in a lower Manhattan hotel room sometime between April 29, 2006, and May 6 of that year.
The ex-Miramax boss has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
