Disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein is in hospital in New York for emergency coronary heart surgical procedure, his attorneys have advised BBC Information.
Legal professionals for Weinstein mentioned he was taken on Sunday night from the Rikers Island jail to Bellevue hospital. They didn’t present additional particulars.
His attorneys say he has been affected by a number of well being situations, and has been experiencing chest pains.
Weinstein, 72, was convicted of rape and sexual assault in 2020 in New York, and jailed for 23 years. These convictions had been overturned this April when an attraction decide dominated he didn’t obtain a good trial. He faces a attainable retrial later this yr.
Weinstein was convicted of sexually assaulting former manufacturing assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and raping Jessica Mann, a former aspiring actress, in 2013.
In his attraction, nonetheless, the courtroom mentioned prosecutors within the pivotal #MeToo case referred to as witnesses whose accusations weren’t a part of the costs in opposition to him.
Weinstein for has additionally been sentenced to 16 years in jail in a separate rape trial in California, in opposition to which he’s interesting.
Weinstein has struggled with severe well being issues, and has been admitted to hospital a number of instances in recent times.
In July, he was handled for Covid-19 and double pneumonia.
In 2020, he was admitted to hospital with chest pains. He additionally was taken to Bellevue hospital that very same yr to open a blocked artery, based on CBS.
He additionally has diabetes and hypertension.
Greater than 100 folks have made rape and misconduct allegations about Weinstein courting again to the late Seventies.
The choice by his accusers to come back ahead, and his subsequent conviction in New York, galvanised the #MeToo motion in opposition to sexual abuse by highly effective males.
Weinstein has at all times maintained his innocence and argued he was the sufferer of a “set-up”.
He co-founded the Miramax movie studio, which produced hits together with Shakespeare in Love – which received greatest image on the Academy Awards – and Pulp Fiction.
His movies have obtained greater than 300 Oscar nominations and 81 statuettes.