Disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein hospitalized
NEW YORK—Disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized on Saturday upon his return to New York after the city’s highest court overturned his 2020 conviction on sex crime charges.
The 4-3 decision was a shock reversal of one of the defining cases of the #MeToo movement, but Weinstein will remain jailed on a separate 16-year rape sentence handed down in California.
“The NYC Department of Corrections determined that Mr Weinstein needed immediate medical attention,” his lawyer Arthur L Aidala told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“A myriad of tests are being performed on Harvey and he is being kept for observation.”
Police told US media that Weinstein had been taken to New York’s Bellevue Hospital.
On Thursday, the city’s Court of Appeals found the trial judge erred in admitting the testimony of women who were allegedly abused by Weinstein but who were not named in the charges brought against him.
Weinstein, 72, was convicted of the rape of Jessica Mann in 2013, and of forcibly performing oral sex on Mimi Haleyi in 2006.
