Harvey Weinstein was “rushed” on Sunday night time to Bellevue Hospital in New York, the place he underwent a process in addition to coronary heart surgical procedure on Monday, his representatives stated.
The previous Hollywood film mogul — who’s serving a 16-year jail sentence in his California rape case and is in custody in New York whereas he awaits retrial on rape prices there — was taken to the hospital “on account of a number of medical points,” in accordance with his publicist Juda Engelmayer and jail marketing consultant Craig Rothfeld.
“We will affirm that Mr. Weinstein had a process and surgical procedure on his coronary heart at the moment. He’s out of surgical procedure and in restoration,” Rothfeld stated Monday in a press release to The Occasions. “As we’ve got extensively acknowledged earlier than, Mr. Weinstein suffers a plethora of great well being points that want ongoing therapy. We’re grateful to the chief group on the New York Metropolis Division of Correction and Rikers Island for performing swiftly in taking him to Bellevue Hospital.”
Engelmayer declined to share additional particulars about Weinstein’s medical process.
In July, the 72-year-old was taken to the medical facility to bear therapy for COVID-19, double pneumonia and different well being circumstances, together with diabetes, hypertension, spinal stenosis and fluid in his coronary heart and lungs.
The “Shakespeare in Love” and “Pulp Fiction” producer was beforehand admitted to Bellevue in late April after a New York appeals court docket overturned his 2020 rape conviction.
In Could, prosecutors requested for a retrial throughout a listening to at a Manhattan courthouse. Weinstein had beforehand appeared in court docket utilizing a walker however attended the Could preliminary listening to in a wheelchair pushed by a court docket officer.
Allegations made in regards to the disgraced studio boss in New Yorker and New York Occasions investigations sparked the 2017 #MeToo motion, with Weinstein changing into some of the infamous males to be legally tasked in its wake. Though he has denied that he raped or sexually assaulted anybody, he was initially sentenced in 2020 to 23 years in jail in New York after allegedly assaulting former manufacturing assistant Mimi Haley and once-aspiring actor Jessica Mann. The state appellate court docket overturned the decision final spring, figuring out that the choose who presided over Weinstein’s 2020 trial prejudiced his case by permitting 4 ladies who accused Weinstein of assault to function witnesses regardless of their allegations not being a part of the case.
The appeals court docket dominated that the trial choose additionally erred in ruling that prosecutors may cross-examine Weinstein about uncharged and decades-old allegations if he determined to testify.
Final week, prosecutors disclosed that they’ve begun taking steps to doubtlessly cost Weinstein with as much as three extra sexual assaults, the Related Press reported. Prosecutors stated they’ve began presenting proof to a grand jury of as much as three beforehand uncharged allegations in opposition to the embattled mogul — two sexual assaults within the mid-2000s and one other sexual assault in 2016.
A vote on a possible new indictment is predicted quickly, AP stated. Weinstein’s retrial is tentatively scheduled to start Nov. 12 and he was initially due again in court docket for a pretrial listening to Sept. 12, in accordance with jail information.
Additionally final week, the U.Okay.’s Crown Prosecution Service stated it was dropping two prices of indecent assault in opposition to Weinstein as a result of there was “not a sensible prospect of conviction.’’ In 2022, he was charged with two counts of indecent assault in opposition to a girl in London for alleged offenses from 1996, the BBC stated.
