2024-07-29 02:09:23
The scandalous American producer Harvey Weinstein is in the hospital after his health deteriorated sharply. He was rushed from Rikers Island Jail to Bellevue Medical Facility after contracting Covid-19 and subsequently developing acute bilateral pneumonia.
Apart from this, the 72-year-old businessman, called the “father” of the Me Too movement, since it was after the accusations against him that it was revived, also suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, spinal stenosis, etc.
The former Hollywood mogul is already serving a 16-year sentence in a 2022 case. Two years earlier, he was convicted in another case of rape, but after his appeal, the sentence was overturned. However, he is in jail and is even expected to be part of a new trial on the same charges in New York soon.
In April, Weinstein also spent 10 days in Bellevue, at which time his lawyer Arthur Aidala described his condition as a “train wreck” whose “life is at stake” but mentally he is still holding his own, Vesti reports.