Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein moaned about his depressing life at Rikers Island in a brand new jailhouse interview — claiming that he was pummeled within the face by a fellow inmate and is “continuously threatened and derided” by different prisoners.
Weinstein, who makes use of a wheelchair to get round, insisted security issues on the infamous New York Metropolis lockup have stored him confined to his cell for 23 hours a day, admitting in a one-hour sit-down with The Hollywood Reporter that he “wouldn’t final lengthy” among the many normal inhabitants.
“One time, whereas I used to be ready to make use of the telephone, I requested the man in entrance of me if he was carried out. He obtained off and punched me laborious within the face,” the 73-year-old bemoaned to the journal in an interview printed Tuesday.
“I fell on the ground, bleeding all over the place,” he stated within the January interview. “I used to be harm actually badly. The cops requested me who had carried out it, however I couldn’t say. You may’t be a rat. That’s the regulation of the jungle,” Weinstein continued.
The disgraced Hollywood mogul, who likened Rikers to “hell,” stays there as he awaits a retrial for the third time on costs of raping an aspiring actress inside a Midtown resort.
“I spend nearly all of it in my cell. Typically I’ll exit within the wheelchair simply to get some air, however that’s solely half an hour. Principally I’m in my cell 23 hours a day. I don’t have any human contact apart from
with the guards,” he griped.
Weinstein complained that when he beforehand hung out with different inmates within the yard, he was incessantly nagged and felt like he was “beneath siege.”
“It’s too harmful for me to be round anybody else. Different inmates get to go to the yard. However each time I’m on the market, I really feel like I’m beneath siege,” Weinstein stated.
The previous {powerful} producer claimed different prisoners have demanded cash and authorized companies from his legal professionals.
“I’m continuously threatened and derided. I wouldn’t final lengthy on the market.”
Weinstein has suffered from a laundry checklist of maladies, together with persistent myeloid leukemia and spinal stenosis, which hold him wheelchair sure.
When requested if he was frightened about dying in jail, Weinstein exclaimed that the premise “scares the sh–t” out of him.
“Chilly and heartless. It’s unimaginable to have the life that I had and the issues that I did for society and never have the leniency to cope with me in a kinder means. No matter they assume I did unhealthy in my life, I didn’t get the dying penalty,” he stated.
The convicted intercourse pest additionally revealed he doesn’t communicate to his two daughters regardless of making an attempt to contact them “a number of occasions.”
“They by no means reply. Their mom reduce me off, too. It’s been radio silence from them ever because the allegations began,” Weinstein stated, noting he nonetheless believes he can show his innocence and win his estranged household over.
“I communicate to a few of my kids day by day: my oldest daughter, who’s 30 now, and my 12-year-old, and my 15-year-old. My different two kids haven’t talked to me for six years,” he stated.
Weinstein shares his two youngest youngsters with ex-wife Georgina Chapman: daughter India, 15, and son Dashiell, 12. He and his first spouse, Eve Chilton, had three daughters, Remy, Emma and Ruth.
“I additionally communicate to my legal professionals and to some buddies. It’s the one factor that retains me sane.”
Weinstein added that he watches mainstream blockbusters on a prison-provided pill and orders piles of books to learn to maintain himself busy.
“I organize them on Amazon, and so they FedEx them to me. Typically just a few a day. I’ve all the time preferred to learn, however there’s not a lot else to do right here,” the convicted intercourse pest stated.
“You don’t get the Instances at Rikers — the one paper right here is the Every day Information. A pal sends me the
Sunday E book Evaluation each week,” he continued.
“Once I was on trial in L.A., I went by my entire highschool curriculum. ‘A Farewell to Arms.’ ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.’ ‘Gatsby.’ I hadn’t learn these books since I used to be 17.”
“Studying them at 72 years outdated, trapped in a cell — it simply hits in a different way. Right here at Rikers, I’m studying memoir after memoir … I simply completed Tom Freston’s e-book, which was fairly good, really,” Weinstein continued.
“However then there’s a line in it that claims, “I do know Harvey Weinstein. He was a predator.” It’s only one line. However
it broke my coronary heart.”
The “Pulp Fiction” producer, who was accused of sexual assault within the wake of the 2017 #MeToo motion, remained adamant that he by no means sexually assaulted anyone — regardless of admitting to “overplaying” his hand with girls.
“Did I make a go at a few of these girls unsuccessfully? Did I overplay my hand? Sure. Was I pushy or overly seductive? Sure to all of that,” he instructed Maer Roshan.
“Look, I ought to by no means have gone out with the folks I went out with. I used to be married to a implausible lady who had no thought what I used to be doing. I lied on a regular basis. I improperly used my workers to cover this stuff,” the disgraced studio government wailed.
“However did I ever sexually assault a girl? No. I by no means did that.”
Weinstein was convicted of raping Jessica Mann at his first trial, in 2020, and of forcing oral intercourse on former Mission Runway manufacturing assistant Mimi Haley. The decision was then overturned in a bombshell ruling from New York’s highest appeals courtroom.
On the retrial, Weinstein was convicted once more on the Haley cost, which carries a sentence of as much as 25 years in jail, however the jury couldn’t agree on the Mann rap.
The jailed former film bigwig made a long-shot bid for a retrial primarily based on alleged juror misconduct, however a choose swatted it down in January.
At a 3rd trial, Jessica Mann can be set to testify once more in regards to the once-powerful studio boss allegedly raping her in 2013 on the DoubleTree resort.
