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Disgraced and imprisoned film mogul Harvey Weinstein “examined constructive for COVID and contracted double pneumonia in his lungs,” Juda Engelmayer, Weinstein’s spokesman, mentioned in an announcement Thursday.
“Craig Rothfeld, Mr. Weinstein’s approved consultant and jail marketing consultant, confirms that Mr. Weinstein has been introduced again to the Bellevue Hospital Jail Ward in order that he may be handled for the myriad of well being circumstances that he’s nonetheless with each day corresponding to diabetes, hypertension, spinal stenosis, fluid on his coronary heart and lungs, and numerous different circumstances. As well as, Mr. Weinstein examined constructive for COVID and contracted double pneumonia in his lungs,” the assertion mentioned.
Engelmayer additionally confirmed to CNN that Weinstein was transferred to the Bellevue Hospital Jail Ward late on Wednesday evening.
The New York Courtroom of Appeals overturned a sex crimes conviction towards Weinstein in April, however he has remained in custody in New York. The Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace mentioned in April that it plans to retry the case, wherein he was initially convicted in 2020 of first-degree legal sexual act and third-degree rape and sentenced to 23 years in jail.
In 2022, the previous movie producer was found guilty of three of seven prices of rape and sexual assault towards one in all 4 girls he was accused of assaulting in Los Angeles.
In that case, Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
He has maintained his innocence and denied any nonconsensual sexual exercise.