Harvey Weinstein has been taken to a hospital for well being exams days after a New York appeals court overturned his 2020 rape conviction.
The disgraced Hollywood producer, 72, was transported from a central New York jail to a medical ward in New York Metropolis’s Rikers Island jail advanced April 26, his lawyer Arthur Aidala informed NBC News. After being examined by docs there April 27, it was determined to ship him to Bellevue Hospital for a extra thorough examination, the lawyer mentioned.
“It looks like he wants loads of assist, bodily,” he added. “He is acquired loads of issues. He is getting all types of checks. He is considerably of a prepare wreck well being sensible.”
Weinstein is nonetheless set to seem in a Manhattan prison courtroom Could 1 for his first look to set a schedule for future hearings forward of a retrial in his 2020 case, NBC Information reported.
On April 25, the appeals court ruled to overturn his conviction for sexually assaulting a former manufacturing assistant and raping an aspiring actress, which had landed him a 23-year jail sentence.