Harvey Weinstein hospitalized with COVID-19, pneumonia
Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction overturned
New York's highest court threw out Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction on Thursday. The court found the trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against Weinstein based on allegations that were not part of the case. Weinstein will still remain in prison because of a 2022 rape conviction in Los Angeles. Legal affairs journalist Meghann Cuniff and AP reporter Michael Sisak join LiveNOW from FOX.
Harvey Weinstein has been hospitalized after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and double pneumonia.
Just two months after being taken out of Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, the Rikers Island inmate is back at the same health center battling a "myriad of health conditions," Juda Engelmeyer, Weinstein’s spokesperson, told the New York Post.
Weinstein, 72, is also being treated for other ailments which include diabetes, high blood pressure, spinal stenosis, fluid on his heart and lungs, and various other conditions, Engelmeyer told the Post.
This is not the first time Weinstein has been transferred between Rikers and Bellevue for treatment.
In May, Weinstein was returned to Rikers as the result of a published report that said Weinstein was getting VIP treatment during his hospital stay, according to Engelmeyer.
The move came hours after The City, a nonprofit news outlet, reported that Weinstein was housed in a private room in the hospital’s intensive care unit with a television, phone and a bathroom rather than a separate floor where inmates normally reside.
Engelmeyer disputed the account, saying Weinstein "wasn’t getting preferential or VIP treatment" and wasn’t housed in what could be characterized as a hospital suite. Engelmeyer said he’d been housed on the floor for inmates where everyone has access to a room with phones and a television room.
Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned
FILE - Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Criminal Court on July 19, 2024 in New York City. Prosecutors are preparing to retry the former movie mogul following the reversal of his 2020 rape conviction. (Credit: Kena Betancur-P
In April, Weinstein’s landmark 2020 rape conviction was overturned, reopening a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures.
The court found the trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against Weinstein based on allegations that weren’t part of the case.
The court ordered a new trial, and his accusers could again be forced to take the witness stand again. The retrial date has been tentatively scheduled for Nov. 12.
Weinstein, however, will remain in prison because he was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 for another rape.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. This story was reported from Los Angeles.