NEW YORK: Former Hollywood movie producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized after an “alarming blood test result,” his lawyer said late Monday.
Weinstein’s attorney Imran Ansari said via email that the 72-year-old was taken to a New York hospital for “emergent treatment due to an alarming blood test result that requires immediate medical attention.”
He will remain at the hospital “until his condition stabilizes,” his lawyer added.
US media reported in October that Weinstein was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer.
The disgraced producer, who is currently serving a prison sentence at the notorious Rikers Island prison, “has been suffering from a lack of adequate medical care and enduring deplorable and inhumane conditions,” Ansari said.
In the same email, Weinstein’s spokesman Juda Engelmayer said his client “is suffering from a number of illnesses, including leukemia” and “has been deprived the medical attention that someone in his medical state deserves, prisoner or not.”
“In many ways, this mistreatment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment,” Engelmayer added.
Weinstein had previously been hospitalized in September for emergency heart surgery before being reincarcerated.
The co-founder of Miramax Films is due to be retried in New York in 2025, after an appeals court last year reversed the ruling of his 2020 sentence for raping an actress, Jessica Mann, and sexually assaulting a production assistant, Mimi Haleyi.
The trial was due to begin in November, but has since been delayed.
Weinstein has appeared in court several times due to the proceedings, most recently in October, during which he arrived in a wheelchair, pale and visibly diminished.
Prosecutors in New York, meanwhile, have since charged him in a separate sexual assault case from 2006, to which Weinstein pleaded not guilty and attorneys requested a separate trial.
The next hearing in the case is set for January 29, during which a new trial date will be set for all charges.
Although Weinstein’s conviction in New York was overturned, he remains incarcerated for a separate 16-year prison sentenced issued in 2023 by a court in Los Angeles for additional rape and sexual assault charges.
In 2017, the allegations against Weinstein helped launch the #MeToo movement, a watershed moment for women fighting sexual misconduct.
More than 80 women accused him of harassment, sexual assault or rape, including prominent actors Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd.
Weinstein has claimed that any sexual relations in question were consensual.
Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after ‘alarming’ blood test: attorney
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Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after ‘alarming’ blood test: attorney
- Lawyer: Harvey Weinstein will remain at the hospital ‘until his condition stabilizes’
- Weinstein had previously been hospitalized in September for emergency heart surgery before being reincarcerated
Mother of Greek train tragedy victim says will form new party
- Opinion polls have shown that a ‘Karystianou party’ could grab between 10 and 30 percent of the vote
- The 53-year-old head of the Tempi Victims’ Relatives Association declined to give a timetable for the party’s launch or name
ATHENS: The main spokesperson for the victims of Greece’s worst rail tragedy has announced plans for a new political party to combat “corruption and clientelism,” with polls already predicting a strong start.
“The citizens’ movement against corruption and clientelism is being organized and will soon be ready to seek society’s vote,” Maria Karystianou, who lost her daughter in the 2023 disaster, told reporters late Friday.
Opinion polls have shown that a ‘Karystianou party’ could grab between 10 and 30 percent of the vote.
The February 2023 rail disaster in Tempi, central Greece killed 57 people, most of them young students on a passenger train that collided with a freight train in the middle of the night.
The government of conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis swiftly came under fire after blaming a local station master for the accident.
The victims’ families also said valuable evidence was lost when the crash site was bulldozed soon after the accident, leading to claims of an attempted cover-up.
Nearly 40 people will go on trial in March, including railway executives and the station master responsible for directing the trains that night.
They face prison sentences of up to 20 years.
In a statement to AFP in February 2025, Karystianou said, “I am determined to take this to the end,” adding that she has “no faith” in Greek justice and would submit her case to the European Court of Human Rights.
On Friday, the 53-year-old head of the Tempi Victims’ Relatives Association declined to give a timetable for the party’s launch or name.
“When I have something complete — which means I will have a program and people — we will come out and speak,” Karystianou said.
Two former prime ministers — leftist Alexis Tsipras and conservative Antonis Samaras — are also rumored to be preparing parties of their own.
