1 week Ago By Angelica Cheyenne
Formerly revered Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein headed back to the hospital amid his cancer battle as his team calls out New York City officials for “ongoing medical negligence." Despite the convicted sexual abuser blaming NYC officials, he doesn’t believe Rikers Island , the prison where he’s serving a prison sentence for his multiple sex crimes, the Correctional Health Services, or his doctors, were accountable. Harvey is said to be plagued with myeloid leukemia, though his prognosis is not known.
“Craig Rothfeld, Mr. Weinstein’s authorized legal healthcare representative in New York State, expresses profound dismay at the speculation,” a spokesperson for Harvey told the Post last month, slamming the news publication for the “speculation” revolving around Harvey’s health . Harvey Weinstein rushed to hospital for emergency heart surgery after suffering chest pain Harvey Weinstein will remain locked up in New York while awaiting rape retrial “It is both troubling and unacceptable that such private and confidential health matters have become a subject of public discourse.
Out of respect for Mr. Weinstein’s privacy, we will offer no further comment,” the rep added. The Miramax co-founder is planning to sue NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue because he didn’t receive the “right to proper care while in custody.
” Additionally, his reps believe NYC allegedly not keeping him at Bellevue hospital while in custody ahead of his upcoming retrial was a “severe oversight, jeopardizing his ability to attend to his own retrial.” Harvey's retrial is scheduled for 2025. His team added, “This treatment suggests a broader agenda for a more sinister outcome through lawfare and inadequate healthcare.
” The former film executive is up for retrial on two sex crime charges that New York state’s highest court overturned months ago after his 2020 conviction. In April, the New York Court of Appeals reportedly decided that testimony from “prior bad acts” witnesses shouldn’t have been included in the trial from years ago. This is because it “was unnecessary to establish defendant’s intent and served only to establish defendant’s propensity to commit the crimes charged.
” Harvey, an instrumental figure who was targeted during the #MeToo movement, was convicted in February 2020 on one count of rape in the third degree and one count of a criminal sex act in the first degree. He received a 23-year prison sentence for forcibly performing fellatio on ex-Project Runway production assistant Miriam “Mimi” Haleyi, as well as attacking hairstylist Jessica Mann. In 2023, he got another 16 years in prison after his trial in Los Angeles for “the 2013 rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by foreign object of Jane Doe 1, an unidentified Italian model,” the Post reported.
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