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Harvey — ask not Harvey who — we’re talking a positive COVID-19 test, New York’s 23-year jail sentence, California’s impending trial, USA’s #MeToo movement, blood-pressure problems, diabetes problems, mobility problems, plus an operation, hospitalization, incarceration, a $15 mil divorce, a hostile brother, assorted upcoming lawsuits — and the probability he’ll blow next year’s Oscars. In …
Harvey — ask not Harvey who — we’re talking a positive COVID-19 test, New York’s 23-year jail sentence, California’s impending trial, USA’s #MeToo movement, blood-pressure problems, diabetes problems, mobility problems, plus an operation, hospitalization, incarceration, a $15 mil divorce, a hostile brother, assorted upcoming lawsuits — and the probability he’ll blow next year’s Oscars.
In addition, the coronavirus restricted his jail liberties. No computer. No phone. No more online. No speaking with family. No unlimited access to his legal team.
March 19, his 68th birthday, was in upstate’s max security Wende Correctional Facility. Wheelchair-bound, health dramatically declined, cardiac and circulatory issues, heart procedure, dangerously high blood pressure, orthopedic spine injuries. And still facing a financial lawsuit over a personal guarantee he signed for a $45 mil loan to the Weinstein Company.
Exercise? Prison is not Gym Source. Eating healthy? Jail cuisine is carb-focused. So what’s he do in solitary confinement? Lawyer Imran Ansari said he’s reading what’s inspirational, such as Churchill triumphing over adversity.
Ansari and Arthur Aidala — their firm is Aidala Bertuna & Kamins — told me books they brought him include “The Splendid and the Vile” by Erik Larson and Catherine Bailey’s “A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis.”
Last week brought two cracks in the wall. Pending was that Al International Holdings Limited lawsuit to enforce the judgment of $45 million.
Petitioned to presiding judge the Honorable Saliann Scarpulla, Supreme Court of the State of New York. Ansari stated: “His financial liberty is at stake . . .
“Also: “A judgment of this sum is equivalent to a life sentence.”
Requested was “staying this litigation . . . the day jury selection was to commence in New York trial, the Los Angeles County District Attorney announced charging Mr. Weinstein with multiple felony counts . . . Due to this additional criminal prosecution against Mr. Weinstein, we request this financial matter be stayed pending the adjudication of that case . . . Proceeding will cause Mr. Weinstein significant inability to participate in the defense of this matter . . . and result in prejudice.”
And about the New York verdict: “Mr. Weinstein intends to appeal his conviction.”
The stay was granted. Also, two women who accused Harvey of sexual harassment agreed to delay the $25 million settlement. Ashley Judd, who is not part of the settlement, has said she intends to take Harvey to trial for defamation.
Speaker has highlights
Plus: On TV ranting about the poor, disenfranchised, hungry, poverty stricken, unemployed, needy and impoverished, Mrs. Pelousy did so with newly just tinted hair. Those albino roots had been done minutes before. Her brown dyed helmet was so fresh that from my kitchen, I could smell the Clairol. Also her.
Paris Whisper
Where in a column should come this nugget, I don’t exactly know. But squeezed into our global tragedies, amid our international health crisis, one must remember that the news is the news. So, ready? Friends in Paris forward the bulletin that — pandemic, no pandemic — their exact information, word-for-word, is: “Hookers in Paris are already back in the streets.”
Despite complaints that he’s always late, our mayor was on time for his TV briefing Saturday. Of course, he thought that this was the one he had scheduled for Friday.
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.
