Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized Saturday when he returned to New York after the city’s appeals court overturned his 2020 conviction for rape and sexual assault.
This court decision sparked an uproar in the #MeToo movement even though Harvey Weinstein remains in prison for a separate 16-year rape sentence handed down in California.
“The New York Department of Corrections determined that Mr. Weinstein needed immediate medical attention,” his lawyer Arthur L Aidala told AFP in a statement.
“Harvey is undergoing several tests and is being monitored,” he said.
Police told US media that Mr Weinstein was taken to Bellevue Hospital in New York.
On Thursday, the city’s appeals court ruled that the trial judge had erred in admitting evidence related to facts other than those made against the plaintiffs, and ordered a new trial.
Harvey Weinstein, 72, was convicted in a New York court in 2020 of raping and sexually assaulting former actress Jessica Mann in 2013, and sexually assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in in 2006. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison. .
The #MeToo movement was fueled in 2017 by revelations about the behavior of the fallen producer, whose influence on Hollywood has been enormous in the past.
Since then, dozens of women, including Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow, have accused Harvey Weinstein of harassment, sexual assault or rape. But the statute of limitations has passed in many of these cases.
2024-04-28 05:57:29
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