Harvey Weinstein is back at NYC's Rikers Island jail after hospital stay

NEW YORK -- One-time movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was returned to a New York City jailhouse successful what his publicist said Tuesday was the effect from a published study claiming helium was getting VIP attraction during his 10-day enactment astatine a hospital.

The publicist, Juda Engelmeyer, said Weinstein was moved precocious Monday from Bellevue Hospital successful Manhattan to an infirmary astatine the city’s Rikers Island jailhouse complex.

The determination came hours aft The City, a nonprofit quality outlet, reported that Weinstein was housed successful a backstage country successful the hospital’s intensive attraction portion with a television, telephone and a bath alternatively than a abstracted level wherever inmates usually reside.

Engelmeyer disputed the account, saying Weinstein “wasn’t getting preferential oregon VIP treatment” and wasn't housed successful what could beryllium characterized arsenic a infirmary suite. Engelmeyer said he'd been housed connected the level for inmates wherever everyone has entree to a country with phones and a tv room.

“He’s been moved backmost to Rikers mostly owed to pressure, I believe, owed to unit due to the fact that of the quality astir what idiosyncratic thought was VIP treatment,” helium said.

Weinstein was brought to Bellevue Hospital lone hours aft helium was transferred connected April 26 from the Mohawk Correctional Facility, astir 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Albany, to Rikers little than a time aft the New York Court of Appeals vacated his conviction.

The appeals tribunal ruled that a Manhattan proceedings justice permitted jurors to spot and perceive excessively overmuch grounds not straight related to the charges helium faced, and it ordered a caller trial, negating his 23-year situation sentence. However, helium remained jailed due to the fact that helium was convicted successful Los Angeles successful 2022 of different rape and was sentenced to 16 years successful prison.

While prosecutors person asked for a September retrial connected charges that helium forcibly performed oral enactment connected a TV and movie accumulation adjunct successful 2006 and raped an aspiring histrion successful 2013, it was unclear if cardinal proceedings witnesses would instrumentality for a caller trial. Weinstein has disputed the allegations.

Frank Dwyer, a New York City Department of Correction spokesperson, said Weinstein was primitively taken to Bellevue for aesculapian attraction and was returned to the West Facility, a Rikers Island jailhouse successful Queens, erstwhile the attraction was completed.

The West Facility houses 140 specially air-controlled lodging units for inmates with contagious diseases specified arsenic tuberculosis, according to a metropolis website, though the jailhouse has reportedly besides been utilized for inmates that request to beryllium isolated from the wide jailhouse colonisation for different reasons.

Craig Rothfeld, a jailhouse advisor moving with Weinstein attorneys, responded to an email sent to a Weinstein lawyer by saying the determination to instrumentality Weinstein to Rikers was made by aesculapian unit "who are much than qualified to marque these aesculapian decisions.”

He said determination are nary much updates to supply regarding Weinstein's health, and each of his wellness conditions proceed to beryllium intimately monitored by metropolis jailhouse and wellness officials.

“We person each assurance successful their decision-making quality regarding Mr. Weinstein's information and well-being and are grateful for their continued communication,” Rothfeld said.

Engelmeyer said Weinstein had been treated astatine the infirmary for pneumonia, a recurring contented related to his bosom troubles, on with his different aesculapian issues, including diabetes.

“He appreciates the attraction helium was getting successful Bellevue,” helium said.

Engelmeyer said Weinstein was “disappointed” astatine his instrumentality to Rikers and was “uncomfortable” there, wherever the spokesperson described Weinstein's lodging arsenic “more similar an infirmary.”

He said Weinstein was regularly speaking by telephone with his lawyers erstwhile helium was astatine the infirmary arsenic different inmates awaiting proceedings are allowed to do.

"He didn't get immoderate attraction antithetic from others. He wasn’t talking to his friends and buddies and having a bully time,” Engelmeyer said.

Engelmeyer said Weinstein gained immoderate “relief and hope” from the appeals ruling, but helium knows helium faces a agelong situation word from the California lawsuit and an entreaty of that condemnation won't beryllium heard for different year.

“His spirits are up, but helium besides knows helium has a long, agelong travel up of him,” Engelmeyer said. “He knows that helium won't beryllium getting retired soon.