Harvey Weinstein was rushed from Rikers Island, the place he’s being held, to Bellevue Hospital for emergency coronary heart surgical procedure after experiencing chest pains, his representatives informed ABC Information.
“Mr. Weinstein was rushed to Bellevue Hospital final night time attributable to a number of medical situations,” Weinstein representatives Craig Rothfeld and Juda Engelmayer mentioned in a press release. “We will affirm that Mr. Weinstein had a process and surgical procedure on his coronary heart at the moment nevertheless can’t remark any additional than that.”
They continued, “As we now have extensively acknowledged earlier than, Mr. Weinstein suffers a plethora of serious well being points that want ongoing therapy. We’re grateful to the chief crew on the New York Metropolis Division of Correction and Rikers Island for appearing swiftly in taking him to Bellevue Hospital.”
The emergency comes as Weinstein, 72, is due in courtroom this week in New York, the place prosecutors had been presenting proof to a grand jury as they work to safe a brand new indictment in opposition to Weinstein on intercourse crimes prices.
Weinstein has denied any wrongdoing and has mentioned his sexual encounters with girls had been consensual.
Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein seems in courtroom on the Clara Shortridge Foltz Felony Justice Heart in Los Angeles, California, on 4 October 2022.
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Weinstein has appeared in courtroom just lately in a wheelchair and has requested to remain in custody at Rikers, the place he has been present process medical care.
In a surprising transfer this April, the New York Court docket of Appeals, in a scathing 4-3 opinion, overturned Weinstein’s conviction on intercourse crimes in opposition to three girls, discovering the trial choose “erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts in opposition to individuals apart from the complainants of the underlying crimes.”
The courtroom mentioned that testimony “served no materials non-propensity function” and “portrayed defendant in a extremely prejudicial gentle.”
Nevertheless, the Manhattan district legal professional’s workplace has since offered proof to a grand jury that might return a brand new indictment in opposition to Weinstein over an alleged sexual assault that occurred someday in a four-month time interval between late 2005 and mid-2006 in a decrease Manhattan residential constructing, based on a transcript of an unannounced courtroom listening to final week.
Prosecutors additionally indicated throughout a listening to on Sept. 3 that they had been conscious of two different potential offenses: a sexual assault in Might 2016 in a resort in Tribeca and a possible sexual assault that occurred on the Tribeca Grand resort.
This is not the primary time Weinstein has been rushed to a hospital just lately. In July, he was transferred to Bellevue after testing optimistic for COVID-19 and double pneumonia, based on his Rothfeld.