Sex pest Harvey Weinstein moved back into Rikers Island Friday afternoon, one day after his notorious rape conviction was overturned.
The fallen movie mogul is cooling his heels in a special cell unit at Rikers’ West Facility for inmates with medical issues, his spokesperson confirmed to The Post.
“We are grateful for how smoothly [the NYC Department of Corrections and NYC H+H/Correctional Health Services] handled the return to Rikers,” Juda Engelmayer said, adding that Weinstein is “having his medical needs tended to.”
“At the same time, Juda Engelmayer says that we are cautiously optimistic and are prepared to go to trial, if it comes to that. There are fewer charges now and the deck isn’t going to be illegally stacked against him.
“While we all enjoy the same rights when it comes to our justice system, a defendant has an additional right to due process. We are glad the Appeals Court judges saw it that way.”
Weinstein, 72, was moved to Rikers from Mohawk Correctional Facility in upstate New York ahead of his Wednesday court date in Manhattan Supreme Court, where prosecutors will push for the disgraced film producer to be retried for his bombshell 2020 sex crimes conviction.
“At the Manhattan D.A.’s Office, our Special Victims Division fights each and every day to center survivors, uplift their voices, and seek justice for these horrific crimes. Our mission is to center survivors’ experiences and wellbeing in every decision we make, which we will do as we approach the next steps in this case,” Manhattan District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Emily Tuttle said in a statement.
The Hollywood creep was let off the hook earlier this week when the New York Court of Appeals overturned his sex crimes conviction.
The state’s highest court ruled following a 4-3 vote that testimony from “prior bad acts” witnesses should not have been allowed because it “was unnecessary to establish defendant’s intent and served only to establish defendant’s propensity to commit the crimes charged.”
The “Pulp Fiction” producer was convicted in February 2020 of one count of rape in the third degree and one count of a criminal sex act in the first degree.
He was found guilty at the time for forcibly performing oral sex on former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam “Mimi” Haleyi and for an attack on hairstylist Jessica Mann — although 28 witnesses shared gut-wrenching testimony during the trial and it’s been reported that at least 80 women have come forward as his victims.
Weinstein was hit with a 23-year prison sentence for raping Mann and sexually abusing Haleyi.
The famous rapist lived in a special Rikers cell during that trial because officials feared an incident akin to fellow sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide. Weinstein also suffers from a series of ailments and uses a wheelchair and walker.
Three years later, in February 2023, he was sentenced to another 16 years in prison following his trial in Los Angeles for the forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by a foreign object of Jane Doe 1, an Italian model, at the Mr. C Hotel in the city in February 2013.
Weinstein is set to be extradited to California, where he’ll begin serving out a 16-year sentence there on sex charges.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.
