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Harvey Weinstein Calls Prison ‘Hell’ in New Interview, Says He Was Punched in the Face by Another Inmate
Weinstein spends 23 hours daily in isolation at Rikers Island, describing it as 'hell' and facing health issues while awaiting a retrial scheduled for April 14.
- In January, Harvey Weinstein, 73, the disgraced former film producer, granted his first sit‑down interview from Rikers Island jail complex, Bronx, New York, where he has been held over a year, to The Hollywood Reporter.
- After an April 2024 appeals ruling, Weinstein remains detained due to a 2025 retrial with a mixed verdict and a separate 2022 California conviction that resulted in a 16‑year sentence.
- Weinstein spends 23 hours a day in his cell, gets a half hour outside, and credits prison consultant Craig Rothfeld for arranging a transfer to Bellevue, saying 'He just helped me navigate this system.'
- Weinstein said he was assaulted inside Rikers, punched in the face by another inmate but refused to identify the attacker, and described conditions as unbearable while begging to move to state prison.
- Amid the #MeToo legacy, Weinstein's interview renews focus on past allegations by more than 100 women and his dispute with Gwyneth Paltrow, with one charge set for retrial on April 14, 2026.
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The film producer, sentenced to 16 years for sexual crimes, interviewed in prison exclusively by the Hollywood Reporter. Epstein? Maybe I met him once or twice. He didn't attend my circle. We certainly weren't friends. "Some woman accused me only to get money"
The Hollywood Reporter published Harvey Weinstein's first big interview from prison, where a former film producer admits that he was awful, but categorically denies the guilt of rape, and insists that he will prove his innocence in court.
In an interview from prison, Hollywood ex-producer accused of several sexual crimes insists on his innocence and says that women who accused him continued "an order effect".
The fallen producer will be tried again in New York from April 14th. At 73 years of age, he assures that his innocence will be "provoked" even if he fears death in prison. Asked about the Epstein case, he assures that the financier was "certainly not" his friend. - His new trial, fear of death, the Epstein case: Harvey Weinstein gives a surrealist interview in prison (Culture, media and entertainment).
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