Movie molester Harvey Weinstein is back in Manhattan — undergoing a battery of medical tests at an Upper East Side hospital, his lawyer said.
“The doctors told him he’s like a car with 100,000 miles on it and he needs an oil change,” attorney Arthur Aidala said. “He’s not in good health. They’re doing a lot of tests.”
The 72-year-old “Pulp Fiction” producer was serving 23 years in upstate Mohawk Correctional Facility when he learned Thursday that the New York State Court of Appeals overturned his 2020 rape conviction. He was then moved to Bellevue Hospital’s prison ward, Aidala said. He claimed he didn’t know the specifics about the producer’s condition.
Weinstein would have been transferred back to Rikers Island jail if he hadn’t gone to the hospital. Such a hospital stay would typically be funded by taxpayers, since he’s in the government’s custody.
In overturning his conviction, the appeals court ruled that the judge in Weinstein’s trial prejudiced the jury by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. New York prosecutors have indicated that they hope to retry Weinstein on the charges.
He was sentenced separately in 2022 to 16 years in prison for forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and penetration with a foreign object after a Los Angeles trial.
Dozens of women accused Weinstein of sex assaults and groping by the time the case was heard. The charges were tied to the producer’s casting couch and helped usher in the #YouToo movement, which encouraged women to speak out about sex crimes.
