Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul whose sexual misconduct helped fuel the #MeToo movement, will face retrial in New York on rape charges in April.

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

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.

However, the judge did not react to his pleas, saying jury selection for an April 15 trial is “beyond set in stone.”

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

Harvey Weinstein, 72, is ‘begging’ a New York City judge for an earlier trial after the date was set for April 2025 and calls his Rikers Island jail a 'hellhole'

Weinstein is being held at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex, where a drawn-out federal receivership process has failed to effectively curb excessive violence and misconduct.

Weinstein was arraigned in September on the count of a criminal sexual act in the first degree, which stemmed from a recent indictment returned by a grand jury. He pleaded not guilty to the charge, which carries a sentence of up to 25 years in prison.

Weinstein was quick to call out Rikers Island, where he is in custody, saying he wasn't sure he would live until the spring while inside the "hell hole" jail complex, which sits near LaGuardia Airport.

The original series, which streams on Peacock, remains popular: Nielsen said in its year-end streaming release that U.S. viewers watched more than 13 billion minutes of Little House on the Prairie in 2024.

Harvey Weinstein will face a retrial on rape charges. He was sentenced to prison in 2020, but the verdict was overturned.