Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein looked drowsy and disoriented during a court appearance in Los Angeles on Tuesday amid reports of his declining health in prison.
The convicted sex abuser was photographed without hair, with five o’clock shadows and bags under his eyes in a courtroom at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, where he is set to stand trial on the charges next week . sexual harassment five Women in LA between 2004 and 2013.
Weinstein’s shocking court appearance comes weeks after that Said his teeth are rotting came out of his mouth and begged a judge to stop a prison dentist from pulling them. The former filmmaker is being jailed at LA’s Twin Towers Correctional Facility while he awaits a trial scheduled for October 10.
“I have pain every day. I have cavities and can’t eat because my teeth are missing,” she said at the time, pleading for permission to go to a private dentist.
The health of the 70-year-old has been deteriorating since he was locked up and sentenced to 23 years in prison in March 2020.
Weinstein began using Walker the same year following spinal surgery, and recent reports suggest that his health has worsened. He has lost 75 pounds since the charges broke, according to the new Yorker.
Weinstein recently said that he is ‘in pain every day.’
Weinstein was laid off in March 2020.
The disgraced producer is trying to appeal his sentence.
In February 2020, a Manhattan jury found Weinstein guilty Former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam “Mimi” Haley was accused of forced oral sex in 2006 and raping hairstylist Jessica Mann in 2013.
However, in August, the Supreme Court of New York Ready to hear Weinstein’s appeal of his sentence, in which he planned to argue that he received an unfair trial.
He was acquitted of two charges of violent sexual assault related to charges of raping actress Annabella Sciorra in the mid-1990s.