It’s better in Bellevue.
Jailed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein filed an emergency request to send him from Rikers back to his cushy setup at Bellevue Hospital — where he reportedly watched CNN for hours on end — because of a worsening tongue infection, according to a newly filed lawsuit.
Weinstein’s emergency partition, filed early Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, seeks a temporary restraining order so he can be “urgently transferred” and receive medical care.
His lawyers once again argued, for at least a third time, that if he’s not allowed to ditch Rikers for Bellevue, it could result in “possibly death.”
“My client’s current state of health is critical,” lawyer Imran H. Ansari wrote in an email to a city lawyer on Friday. “The infection of his tongue is getting worse.”
Ansari claims Weinstein is retaining water, gaining weight and had been vomiting on his last court date due to his spate of health issues.
“I am placing you on notice,” reads the email filed in court papers on Wednesday. “My client is not receiving the treatment he requires.”
His petition requests that he remain in the hospital for the entirety of his criminal trial due to a laundry list of ailments including his tongue, obesity, sleep apnea, anemia, lap band surgery, leukemia, heart issues and chronic leg pain.
While at Rikers, the disgraced #MeToo moviemaker has “feared for his life” due to the notorious jail’s “negligence and gross mismanagement of Weinstein’s conditions,” claiming he’s caught COVID and pneumonia due to the “freezing cold environments” and missing medication.
Weinstein was last bedded at Bellevue in November. During another stay last spring, he was shipped back to Rikers after reports of VIP treatment were exposed.
All the while, day two of jury selection in Weinstein’s criminal sex trial is unfolding in a Manhattan courtroom. Not a single peer has been picked to serve so far.