Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein’s publicist said the disgraced filmmaker was hurt during a fall at Rikers Island jail.
Weinstein, 67, felt dizzy and fell sometime Sunday morning, his spokesman Juda Engelmayer told CNN. The sex criminal is being held at the infirmary unit at New York’s notoriously brutal Rikers Island jail while he awaits sentencing on March 11.
“Harvey says his head throbs all the time and thinks he has a concussion. He has not been officially diagnosed,” Engelmayer said, noting that he spoke with the jailed media mogul on Sunday.
Engelmayer said Weinstein has “had a lot of time to think about his life and what he’s done,” and “said he wasn’t a nice guy and that’s how he got here.”
Weinstein had heart surgery on Wednesday and received a stent, his publicist said.
Weinstein, who used a walker during his much-publicized New York trial, was convicted in February of rape and sexual assault against two women. The Hollywood producer faces up to 29 years in prison and additional sex-crime charges in California.
