Harvey Weinstein Hospitalized After Rape Convictions Overturned

Harvey Weinstein has been hospitalized.

On Saturday, April 27, the disgraced Hollywood producer, 72, was transported to the jail ward of Bellevue Hospital in New York City for a “sequence of checks,” his legal professional, Arthur Aidala, and publicist, Juda Engelmayer, confirmed to The Washington Post.

He was introduced there from Rikers Island jail, the place he’d been in custody. Weinstein’s 2020 convictions in New York for rape and sexual assault have been overturned on April 25.

Weinstein was hospitalized after his well being points have been “triggered” whereas being transferred, in response to Engelmayer.

“[The move] triggered a few of [Weinstein’s] well being points that warranted nearer monitoring,” Engelmayer advised the Post, including that Weinstein’s hospital switch “is consistent with his prior custody.”

Aidala advised ABC 7 Chicago, “They examined him and despatched him to Bellevue. It looks as if he wants plenty of assist, bodily. He’s received plenty of issues. He’s getting every kind of checks. He’s considerably of a practice wreck health-wise.”

As of April 27, Weinstein was nonetheless at Bellevue, the place he remained in custody, Frank Dywer, a spokesperson with the New York City Department of Correction, confirmed to the outlet. 

Weinstein will return to Rikers after he has accomplished his medical checks, his lawyer stated, per ABC 7. His hospitalization comes as he is because of seem at Manhattan Supreme Court on May 1. 

Weinstein’s legal professional and publicist didn’t reply to PEOPLE’s request for touch upon April 28.

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Earlier this week, a court docket resolution was made to overturn Weinstein’s 2020 convictions in New York State for rape and sexual assault. 

The transfer got here after Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in jail in February 2020 after being discovered responsible of felony sexual act within the first diploma and rape within the third diploma — after being accused of forcibly performing oral intercourse on a girl in 2006 and raping one other lady in 2013 — in New York City.

Despite the overturning, Weinstein will stay in custody following his 2022 convictions for intercourse crimes prices in California.