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Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein begged a Manhattan judge Wednesday to move up his new sex assault trial because he “can’t hold on anymore” holed up on Rikers Island.

“Every day I’m at Rikers Island it’s a mystery to me how I’m still walking,” Weinstein, 72, told the court while speaking from a wheelchair. “I’m asking and begging you, your honor, I can’t hold on anymore. I’m holding on because I want justice for myself and I want this to be over with.”

The decrepit ex-Miramax honcho addressed Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Curtis Farber for about five minutes, crying foul about his treatment on Rikers Island and detailing his chronic health struggles — which include a cancer diagnosis and diabetes — in an attempt to persuade the judge to move his April trial date up.


  Harvey Weinstein attends a hearing ahead of his retrial, at New York Supreme Court in New York City on January 29, 2025. POOL/AFP via Getty Images Harvey Weinstein attends a hearing ahead of his retrial, at New York Supreme Court in New York City on January 29, 2025. POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Earlier in the hearing, Farber had said the trial date was “set in stone,” and moved it up about a week to April 15.

But Weinstein kept urging the judge to delay a trial in a different case — just so he could get out of the “hell hole” known as Rikers Island “as quickly as possible.”

“There were so many people suffering at Rikers Island, so many people I am with in prison that are going through similar problems,” Weinstein charged, even boldly claiming that he spoke “for all of them” in his bid to the court.

He added the city’s beleaguered jail “remains a stain on this city” before ominously warning the court that he’s in a “serious emergency situation” and that he might not even make it to trial.

“I won’t be there for April,” he claimed.

Weinstein has been hospitalized a handful of times in recent months following a slew of serious ailments — including emergency heart surgery, diabetes, spinal stenosis and a recent cancer diagnosis.

His attorney, Arthur Aidala, has previously criticized his treatment at the jail while he withers away awaiting trial. 

The judge, who sat patiently during Weinstein’s speech, told the disgraced ex-Hollywood executive that he was “empathetic” about his situation — but ultimately told Weinstein to wait and see how his other trial plays out before he moves his calendar around.

The judge also denied Weinstein’s bid to dismiss a new sexual assault charge from a different woman who prosecutors say he forced oral sex on in a Manhattan hotel in 2006.

Weinstein prison consultant Craig Rothfeld was adamant that the fallen Hollywood mogul’s health was rapidly deteriorating. 

He told The Post after court that Weinstein is a “very sick man.”

“He’s not doing well,” Rothfeld said. “[He has] serious, serious health conditions with his heart, you know, with his cancer … being at the top of the list. “He should be monitored in a hospital and for reasons unknown to us, he’s not.”

Rothfeld also warned that Weinstein faces a serious risk of dying before his next court date.

“I don’t think any of us would be surprised if we got a phone call saying Mr. Weinstein had a massive heart attack,” he added. “I’m not embellishing.”

Rothfeld, calling for Weinstein’s immediate hospitalization, blamed the “medieval” conditions at Rikers Island for his client’s purportedly declining health.

“These complaints are about living in a place that is truly a hellhole,” he said. “It’s certainly not the right setting to treat someone with his medical conditions.”

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 last April.

Weinstein remains behind bars serving a 16-year prison sentence after a 2022 Los Angeles conviction on another rape.

He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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