Harvey Weinstein was held in dirty underwear, blood-soaked clothes in Gulag-like prison, lawyers allege

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers alleged that the accused director of Me Too was receiving poor medical treatment at Rikers’ Islan prison complex. The filing said Weinstein has medical conditions such as chronic myeloid leukemia and diabetes but is kept in poor hygiene at the prison without clean clothes.
“When I last visited him, I saw him with blood splattered on his prison clothes, probably IV clothes that hadn’t been washed in weeks, and he hadn’t even been given clean underwear – rare for people with serious medical conditions. Sanitary conditions. ,” Weinstein’s attorney, Imran H. Ansari, said in a statement, comparing the facility to a “Gulag.”
Weinstein remains in city custody earlier this year after a New York Court of Appeals overturned his 2020 rape conviction in the state, but Weinstein has denied any wrongdoing. In April and July, Weinstein was briefly hospitalized and treated for diabetes, high blood pressure, spinal stenosis, Covid-19, and fluid in his heart and lungs.
Weinstein’s lawyers filed a $5 million lawsuit alleging that Weinstein returned to prison too early each time — before he had fully recovered.
In a recent court hearing, the jailed movie mogul was seen confined to a wheelchair as his health deteriorated over the past few months.
In September, Weinstein pleaded not guilty to a new charge of forcing a woman into oral sex at a Manhattan hotel in spring 2006.
According to the indictment and other court documents, the alleged assault — the specific charge is a “criminal sexual act” — took place between April 29 and May 6, 2006, at a lower Manhattan hotel.
After Weinstein’s film production company went into bankruptcy proceedings after his guilty plea, he set up a $17 million fund for sexual misconduct claims. This Rikers Island Jail It is scheduled to close in 2027, but the city has pushed back the deadline to do so.