Harvey Weinstein Jailed In VIP Private Room Inside Bellevue’s ICU

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Harvey Weinstein is being kept in a private room inside Bellevue Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit on a floor away from all other detainees, THE CITY has learned.

Almost all city detainees with serious medical issues are kept inside the Department of Correction’s medical unit on the 19th floor.

But Weinstein currently has his own phone, bathroom, and television — a perk few, if any, other city detainees are afforded — in a different location in the hospital. He spends most of his day watching CNN and other television programs and talking in person or on the phone to Arthur Aidala, the attorney handling his appeal.

The disgraced movie mogul was moved to the Manhattan public hospital hours after he was brought back to Rikers Island on April 27 when an appeals court tossed his 2020 rape conviction.

Weinstein, 72, was transferred to the hospital following complaints of chest pain, according to a jail source familiar with his case.

He has since been diagnosed with pneumonia, and his legal team says he’s dealing with a host of other serious medical conditions like constant chest and abdominal pain, another jail insider said.

“He’s a sick man,” Weinstein attorney Donna Rotunno told THE CITY. “Harvey has multiple health issues and he’s never gotten the level of care that he received prior to going into custody.”

A former therapist who worked on Rikers questioned why Weinstein has remained in the ICU for so long, noting he’s capable of shaving, showering, and moving out of bed.

“He’s not supposed to be there,” said the clinician who asked to remain anonymous. “It’s special treatment.”

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