Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Criminal Court. File photo | Photo credit: AP
Former movie mogul in jail Harvey Weinstein placed on emergency status He will undergo heart surgery at a hospital in New York City on Monday (September 9, 2024), his representatives said.
Weinstein, 72, was taken from the Rikers Island jail complex to Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital late Sunday “due to a serious medical condition,” his publicist Judah Engelmayer and prison consultant Craig Rothfeld said.
“We can confirm that Mr. Weinstein underwent cardiac surgery today,” they said, declining to comment further on his condition.
The news of Weinstein’s hospitalization was first reported. ABC News.
Weinstein has been hospitalized at Bellevue Hospital since his return to Rikers Island from state prison in April after an appeals court overturned his 2020 rape and sexual assault convictions and ordered a new trial.
He was hospitalized in July for treatment of a variety of health issues, including COVID-19 and pneumonia in both lungs, his representatives said.
A state appeals court found that the judge in the 2020 trial improperly allowed testimony from women whose claims against Weinstein were not part of the case.
Last week, prosecutors revealed they had begun taking steps to potentially charge him with three additional sexual assaults.
He said he has begun presenting evidence to the grand jury about three previously uncharged allegations against Weinstein — two sexual assaults in the mid-2000s and another in 2016.
A vote on a possible new impeachment is expected soon.
Meanwhile, British prosecutors said last week they were dropping two indecent assault charges against Weinstein in 2022 because there was now “no realistic prospect of conviction.”
Weinstein has denied that he raped or sexually assaulted anyone. He is in custody in New York. Awaiting retrial in Manhattan It is likely scheduled to begin Nov. 12. He is due back in court Sept. 12 for a pretrial hearing.
Weinstein is the most The main villain of the #MeToo movementThe controversy began in 2017 when women began speaking out publicly about his behavior.
In the original trial, Weinstein was convicted of third-degree rape for forcibly performing oral sex on a TV and film production assistant in 2006 and assaulting an aspiring actor in 2013. Those charges will be part of his retrial. The verdict acquitting Weinstein of charges of predatory sexual assault and first-degree rape still stands.
After the retrial, Weinstein will have to serve 16 years in prison in California for a separate rape case in Los Angeles. Weinstein was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022, officials said.
Weinstein, the co-founder of the Miramax and The Weinstein Co. film studios, was once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, producing Oscar-winning films such as “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love.”
Published – September 10, 2024 04:39 am IST