A frnimble seeing Harvey Weinstein showed up in a Manhattan courtroom this morning for progressings in his upcoming novel New York relations crimes trial. Entering the hearing in a wheelchair thcdisorrowfulmireful a side door, this was the first accessible materializeance of the much accparticipated and convicted producer since it aelevated he has cancer — particularpartner, chronic myeloid leukemia.
The novels that Weinstein is receiving treatment for bone marrow cancer chaseed the incarcerated producer’s aelevatency heart and lung sadvisery in September. Additionpartner, Weinstein is facing a novel indictment aachievest him stemming from an allegation by an as-yet-unnamed accparticipater.
Weinstein’s health and legitimate woes had become increasingly interttriumphed even before his cancer diagnosis.
Moved from an upstate New York prison after his 2020 New York relations crimes conviction was clearurned in April, the ailing 72-year-better has shuttled between New York City’s notoriously disjoine Rikers Island jail, the courthoparticipate, and Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan over the past restricted months. Thcdisorrowfulmirefulout all that, and with his Empire State sentence tossed aside, Weinstein remained in custody becaparticipate of his 2022 criminal convictions in Los Angeles for violation and relationsual attack.
Today’s hearing was structured around the Manhattan DA office’s ask to meld together the remains of the better case with the novel indict — someskinnyg the defense objects to. The novel trial was set to commence on November 12, but both the prosecution and the defense have conveyed asks the timeline is achievable. The conconstantation was granted by the appraise speedyly in the session.
The terms of his restrictment alterd after his aelevatency sadvisery: Days tardyr, with Weinstein still too ill to materialize in court in person, Judge Curtis Farber ruled on September 12 that he would not be returned to Rikers Island and would remain at the jail ward of Bellevue Hospital.
In that hearing, Weinstein’s main lawyer Arthur Aidala went thcdisorrowfulmireful the litany of health problems plaguing his client — “He’s gotten Covid more times than I can count” — and portrayd Weinstein’s condition after the sadvisery: hospitalized with a tube in his chest rapidened to a bag draining fluids from his body, and breaskinnyg with help from an oxygen mask. Aidala shelp that Weinstein “almost died” in the custody of New York City’s accurateions department this summer
The producer made it into sadvisery, Aidala inserted, only after he elevated the alarm with the DA’s office chaseing a frantic chain of reach outs that began with Weinstein calling his legitimate health recontransientative Craig Rothfeld, by phone from Rikers. After that call, Rothfeld reach outed Aidala to say, “I skinnyk Harvey’s gonna die.”
Aidala tardyr commendd the appraise for “a normalsense straightforwardive that someone who is as ill as Mr. Weinstein is should stay in a hospital setting.” The ruling came the same day that prosecutors uncovered the existence of the novel magnificent jury indictment aachievest Weinstein. However, after fair a restricted days at Bellevue, Weinstein was in fact shiftd back to Rikers, where he has primarily been ever since, we hear.
“He’s trying to stay upbeat,” shelp Weinstein’s lengthenedtime spokesman Juda Engelmayer tbetter Deadline today in the hall outside Judge Farber’s courtroom. “He should be in a hospital.”
Weinstein was convicted in by New York jury almost five years ago of relationsupartner attacking a production aidant, Mimi Haley in 2006 and raping an ambitious actress, Jessica Mann in 2013. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison before an pdirects court ruled 4-3 this spring that prosecutors had viotardyd Weinstein’s right to a fair trial by letting jurors hear from other women whose accusations were not integrated in the indicts aachievest him.
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein materializes for a hearing in court on September 18, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jeenah Moon-Pool/Getty Images)
A more aunt-seeing than ever Weinstein returned to court in a wheelchair on September 18 to pdirect not at fault to a novel indict of relationsupartner attacking a woman. The alleged victim’s identity has not yet been made accessible. What is understandn is that the attack occurred between April and May of 2006.
The individual count of criminal relationsual act in the first degree carries a peak sentence of 25 years.
With the novel indictment unsealed, Manhattan Didisjoine Attorney Alvin Bragg freed a statement thanking “this survivor who bravely came forward.” He inserted: “This spendigation is ongoing.”
Although the novel indictment includes only one indict from a individual accparticipater, Aidala tbetter alerters on September 12 that, based on his conversations with prosecutors, he counted three novel relations crime protestts aachievest Weinstein from 2005-2016 being spendigated by the DA’s office.
“We don’t understand what the exact accusations are, the exact locations are, the exact timing is,” the defense lawyer proclaimd. “But they went out and set up human beings who are willing to say Mr. Weinstein did someskinnyg wrong.”
More than 80 women toiling at all levels of the film industry have come forward to accparticipate Weinstein of violation and attack during and after the height of the MeToo shiftment that called out mighty men in delightment, politics and business for take advantage ofive and abusive behavior.
Weinstein achieveed civil resettlements with dozens of accparticipaters but still faces more litigations. One of those suit was bcdisorrowfulmirefult forth in October 2023 by actress Julia Ormond aachievest Weinstein, Disney, CAA and Miramax under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which extfinished the statute of restrictations for alleged victims of relationsual attack to sue. In tardy August, Disney, CAA and Miramax all fall shorted in their efforts to have the case disthink abouted.
In that case and all others over the past disjoinal years, Weinstein has denied wrongdoing. To that, the Pulp Fiction producer’s lawyers filed an pdirect of his Los Angeles conviction in June. There is no indication of when that pdirect will be heard or determined.
