Weinstein pushed at a court hearing for an earlier trial date, citing his health. "I can’t hold on anymore," he said.

Harvey Weinstein appeared disheveled during a court hearing Wednesday. The former film producer requested an earlier trial due to his health conditions, calling Rikers Island a "hellhole."

I need to get out of this hellhole as quickly as possible,” the ex-movie mogul, who is being held in New York’s Rikers Island, said at a recent hearing.

A gaunt-looking Harvey Weinstein pleaded with the judge in his criminal retrial to move the start date forward because he believes he will die at Rikers Island.

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein told a judge he "won't be there" for his upcoming retrial if he remains at Rikers Island.

Harvey Weinstein begged a judge Wednesday to hold his #MeToo retrial as soon as possible, telling him “I don’t know how much longer I can hold on” with cancer, heart issues and harsh conditions at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex.

On Jan. 29, the ailing Hollywood producer asked a Manhattan judge to move up his retrial date because he doesn't know how long he can last on Rikers Island

The 72-year-old disgraced mogul is set to go on trial again on charges claiming he forcibly performed oral sex on an assistant in 2006 and raped an aspiring actor in 2013. Weinstein entered the Lower Manhattan courthouse looking frail in a wheelchair on Wednesday.

Calling Rikers a “stain on this city,” Weinstein, 72, said he was advocating on behalf of all detainees at the jail.

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein begged a judge on Wednesday to move up his April 15th trial date on sex crimes charges, invoking conditions at the infamous Rikers Island facility where he’s currently being held.

The former Hollywood studio head will be retried for his 2020 sexual assault conviction after an appeals court overturned it in 2024. Weinstein also faces additional sex crimes charges.

Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to return to court today, where the judge is set to decide when his retrial will start.