Harvey Weinstein has been taken to a hospital for well being exams days after a New York appeals court docket 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 advised NBC Information. After being examined by medical doctors there April 27, it was determined to ship him to Bellevue Hospital for a extra thorough examination, the lawyer stated.
“It looks as if he wants plenty of assist, bodily,” he added. “He is received plenty of issues. He is getting every kind of checks. He is considerably of a practice wreck well being clever.”
Weinstein is nonetheless set to seem in a Manhattan legal court docket 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 docket dominated 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.
