Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is back in the hospital and now plans to sue New York City over “ongoing medical negligence,” The Post has learned.
Weinstein, 72, who was diagnosed with cancer last month, intends to take legal action against NYC Health and Hospitals and Bellevue Hospital, arguing that the city’s refusal to provide him ongoing treatment at Bellevue will prevent him from attending his own trials, his camp said Friday.
The fallen Tinseltown powerhouse — the original poster boy for the landmark #MeToo movement — was convicted in a slew of sex crimes in Manhattan and a rape in Los Angeles in 2022 and is currently awaiting trial and retrial in the Big Apple on more sexual-assault charges.
The disgraced Hollywood producer was diagnosed with cancer. POOL/AFP via Getty Images“We won’t discuss Mr. Weinstein’s medical specifics, but we are appalled by the ongoing medical negligence shown by NYC Health and Hospitals and Bellevue,” a representative for the former producer said in a statement.
“This isn’t the fault of Rikers, CHS [the city jail system’s Correction Health Services], or the Bellevue doctors, whom Mr. Weinstein deeply respects,” the statement said. “However, refusing to keep him at Bellevue during his trial is a severe oversight, jeopardizing his ability to attend to his own retrial. Mr. Weinstein has hired legal counsel to sue NYC Health and Hospitals and Bellevue, as he has the right to proper care while in custody.
“This treatment suggests a broader agenda for a more sinister outcome through lawfare and inadequate healthcare.”
Weinstein had reportedly been receiving treatment at Rikers Island Jail, where he’s faced numerous health complications.
Weinstein spent time at Bellevue hospital in September as he was awaiting retrial. Probe-Media for NY PostWeinstein is believed to be suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia. It is unclear what his cancer prognosis is or how it will affect the legal proceedings against him.
Representatives for Weinstein said the city’s treatment of him could prevent him from attending his own trials. Probe-Media for NY PostOnce one of the top producers in the movie biz, Weinstein fell from grace as the #MeToo movement gained ground around him and dozens of women came forward, accusing him of sexual assault.
Weinstein was convicted in 2020 of first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York, but his conviction was overturned on appeal in April. He is being retried on the charges.
The former Miramax boss also remains behind bars as he appeals a separate 2022 conviction in the Big Apple for three sexual-assault charges, for which he was slapped with 16 years in prison.
Weinstein was recently charged in yet another case with first-degree criminal sex act after prosecutors alleged that he forcibly performed oral sex on a woman in a lower Manhattan hotel room sometime between April 29, 2006, and May 6 of that year.
He has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.






