A vengeful Harvey Weinstein is not going quietly without a fight.
The disgraced mogul, 73, remains incarcerated in a special unit of a New York City hospital, cancer-stricken and desperate to clear his name before his disease claims his life.
Once convicted and now trying to overturn that judgement, Weinstein maintains his innocence, insistent that he was the sacrificial lamb of a toothy #MeToo movement and hyper-feminist time.
He is riddled with leukemia and subsisting on rancid cereal and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
And in a rare interview with Daily Mail, he revealed his dying wish - to get revenge on the Hollywood elites he believes wronged him.
Among those in his sights are Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, and the New York Times journalists who set off his downfall.
'I've been festering lately about this,' he said of the infamous October 2017 report that triggered his fall from grace.
The article opened with claims by actress Ashley Judd that Weinstein sexually harassed her in a hotel room, including asking for a massage and to watch him shower.
He has long denied the allegations that he did anything illegal, and now wants the Pultizer Prize committee to strip reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey of the awards they won.
'They're not Woodward and Bernstein, they're Thelma and Louise!' he fumed.
Kantor and Twohey are yet to respond to his comments.
Also on his list is renowned director Peter Jackson, who in 2017 claimed that Miramax and Weinstein warned him against casting actresses Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd in Lord of the Rings.
Both women accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct in the first wave of allegations.
Jackson subsequently claimed that Weinstein ordered him not to cast either of them in his Lord of the Rings megahit.
'I recall Miramax telling us they were a nightmare to work with and we should avoid them at all costs. This was probably in 1998.
'At the time, we had no reason to question what these guys were telling us - but in hindsight, I realize that this was very likely the Miramax smear campaign in full swing.
'I now suspect we were fed false information about both of these talented women - and as a direct result their names were removed from our casting list,' Jackson said in a December 2017 interview with Stuff.com.nz, two months after the first allegations surfaced.
Weinstein insists that's a lie - and is challenging Jackson to revive his claim so the pair can 'debate'.
'Peter Jackson was the original guy who said that I blackballed Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd,' he raged.
'I would like Peter Jackson to restate his claim so that he and I can debate what he said, because I realized that so many women use that as an excuse.
"He was going to blackball me, he was going to take away my job, he was going to do this". That all came from one jealous Peter Jackson.
'What he said had such volcanic effect on every accuser of mine, and I'd like him to restate it so that I can debate with him fully if he has the courage to do it.
'You'll probably hear nothing but a whimper from him.'
He claims Jackson was just 'jealous' of him and bitter about other conflicts they had during the massively successful fantasy trilogy's development.
Weinstein reserved particular ire for Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the New York Times reporters whose October 2017 article began his downfall.
The pair were portrayed by Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan in the movie She Said.
'I think he was jealous that I got a piece of the action of Lord of the Rings.
'It just hurt him, and I mean New Line did such a great job, but I still was an executive producer and still had a percentage,' he said.
Throughout the interview, Weinstein also lashed out at his accusers with the vigor and conviction of a man convinced he would be vindicated.
His New York retrial, in which three women accuse him of sexual assault, is into its closing arguments, and his appeal a 16-year rape sentence in Los Angeles is pending.
Weinstein believes he will win both.
'I think the #MeToo movement is getting weak, I think that people now are listening to men and women, and I think there's a definite movement in this country to just say, we're not [just] going to listen to one side,' he said.
'I think the results (of his trials) are gonna be fine... I think there's a real movement now to telling the truth and proving that these girls were in it for the money.
'But if the reverse happens, my health is in jeopardy.'
Weinstein is struggling with cancer, diabetes, spinal stenosis, and a possible immune system problem that he claims are not competently treated in jail.
His mobility is so bad he is pushed in and out of the courtroom in a wheelchair by court officers, scrambling pathetically with his legs as he goes.
'I turn 73 next Wednesday and I'm in a place where I don't think I'll get to 74,' he told the Daily Mail earlier this year from Rikers Island jail.
Among those in his sights are Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, and the New York Times journalists who set off his downfall.
With such a litany of ailments and grim prognosis, he admitted there was a real possibility he wouldn't live to be released even if he won both his legal battles.
'The answer to that question is, I don't know,' he said when asked this week.
Weinstein is usually locked up at Rikers, but is staying at Bellevue Hospital for the duration of the retrial, and desperately doesn't want to return.
'I'm afraid to go back to Rikers under any situation,' he said.
'I've had four emergency episodes there, and I don't want a fifth at my age and in my condition... it would just be disastrous.
'Rikers is a medieval place that needs tearing down, and they promise every year they'll tear it down.'
But he had plenty of complaints about the holding cell at the courthouse he is kept in two hours before and after proceedings and during breaks.
'My lunch break is peanut butter and jelly sandwich from 1947, or Cheerios from 1948, that's it,' he said.
Incarceration, of any kind, also gives him time to reflect on how far he rose in the movie world, and how much further he fell.
He tells a story of how he was broke and starving while hitchhiking across the US as young man, and an Indian man gave him $1.10 to get by.
'Well, it's worse than where I started; prison is the most inhumane thing. You're automatically humbled and they take away all your privileges,' he said.
Weinstein said if he ever got out, and lived long enough, he would establish a halfway house to help felons transition back into society.
'We can't be just imprisoning people; have to be rehabilitated,' he said.
'I felt that way before I went in and now that I'm in, meeting some of these kids who made mistakes, who made early mistakes, but they need a life, and I'm here to any way that I can to help.'
Not that Weinstein believes he needs rehabilitating, at least not in any criminal fashion.
'I cheated on my wife, which was immoral; I hurt my family; I had a bad temper at work... I might have been immoral in my actions with other women, but I certainly did nothing illegal,' he insisted.
Kaja Sokola (left) and Jessica Mann (right) along with production assistant Mimi Haley are the three alleged victims in Weinstein's ongoing retrial in New York.
Weinstein's retrial on rape and sexual assault charges before a New York Supreme Criminal Court jury in Manhattan will wrap up this week.
He was convicted of sexually assaulting aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013 and raping production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006.
But last year, the New York Court of Appeals astonishingly ruled that Weinstein did not receive a fair trial - and tossed out his 23-year sentence.
Mann and Haley restated their cases during the trial, and Polish ex-model Kaja Sokola was added to the mix, alleging Weinstein forced oral sex on her in 2006 when she was just 19.
His lawyers told the court the women consented to sex acts with Weinstein as a 'quid pro quo' to further their careers.
Weinstein was also jailed for 16 years for rape, forced oral copulation, and third-degree sexual misconduct in 2022, and acquitted of four other charges.
His lawyers filed an appeal weeks after the verdict, which is being considered by the California Court of Appeal.