Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was rushed to a hospital following an “alarming blood test.”
The former film producer was recently diagnosed with leukemia.
According to Deadline, Weinstein sued the City of New York and others over “deplorable conditions” at Rikers Island jail.
“Harvey Weinstein, who has been 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,” his attorney, Imran H. Ansari, told Fox News Digital.
“It is expected that he will remain there until his condition stabilizes. His deprivation of care is not only medical malpractice, but a violation of his constitutional rights,” the statement added.
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Per Fox News:
Weinstein’s representative, Juda Engelmayer, confirmed the disgraced movie mogul has been diagnosed with leukemia.
“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,” he told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Weinstein’s team has been adamant about his declining health in recent months, claiming he is “basically getting no treatment” for his various medical issues.
“All I can tell you is he is not getting the treatment he deserves,” Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, said after a court hearing in July. “He needs some relief. We are very confident of the outcome of this trial… he will get acquitted. There is a lot of light at the end of the tunnel for Mr. Weinstein.”
Deadline reports:
This is the third time Weinstein has been at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the USA, in almost as many months. Back in July he was on the prison ward for Covid-19 and then pneumonia. In September, the producer, who was convicted on sex crimes in LA on 2022, almost died before receiving heart surgery at Bellevue.
A month after pleading not guilty to a new sex crimes charge from the Grand Jury and the Manhattan District Attorney, Weinstein was diagnosed in late October with bone marrow cancer.
Falling fast from his powerful perch after a late 2017 New York Times expose on the decades of abuse and rape he had inflicted upon young women in and out of Hollywood, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison after a jury in Manhattan found the former studio chief guilty in 2020 of raping actress Jessica Mann and sexually assaulting production assistant Miriam Haley. A panel of New York appeals court judges threw out the conviction in April, ruling 4-3 that prosecutors had erred by allowing the testimony of other Weinstein accusers whose claims were not being tried.
The once-feared mogul is expected to go on trial in New York sometime early next year, health and civil suit permitting.
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