Former Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein, now in jail after being convicted of intercourse crimes, on Tuesday sued the U.S. enterprise of Fiat Chrysler Vehicles over a 2019 crash through which he flipped a Jeep Wrangler whereas making an attempt to keep away from a deer.

Weinstein is in search of $5 million in damages, saying the Aug. 17, 2019 accident in Bedford, New York, about 40 miles north of Manhattan, left him “catastrophically injured and rendered paralyzed” with “vital and persevering with aware ache and struggling” from what his lawyer known as “extreme backbone and again accidents.”

In accordance with the grievance filed in a New York state court docket in Manhattan, Weinstein was sporting his seatbelt when the brakes on the 2017 Wrangler failed as he approached the deer, inflicting a rollover.

Weinstein stated the defendant FCA US LLC, now owned by Stellantis, had offered him the “unreasonably harmful” automobile in alternate for product placement in one in every of his movies.

“We intend to vigorously defend our product towards these claims,” Stellantis stated in a press release.

Gary Kavulich, a lawyer for Weinstein, disputed press studies suggesting his consumer was unhurt, saying Weinstein informed authorities he was damage on the time of the accident.

“He’s in fixed ache, it is debilitating,” Kavulich stated in a press release, including that negotiations with FCA to avert a lawsuit “went on for months and months.”

Weinstein, 70, is serving a 23-year jail sentence following his February 2020 jury conviction in Manhattan for sexual assault and rape.

A New York state appeals court docket upheld the conviction on Thursday.

The case stays the highest-profile trial within the #MeToo motion towards sexual misconduct by outstanding males.

Weinstein underwent again surgical procedure in December 2019, and used a walker through the trial.

He’s awaiting trial in Los Angeles on different alleged intercourse crimes from 2004 to 2013, and has pleaded not responsible. Weinstein has denied any non-consensual sexual encounters.