Harvey Weinstein in hospital due to urgent heart surgery

Lawyer Arthur Aidala said that Harvey Weinstein was taken Monday morning from Rikers Island Jail to Bellevue Hospital. He did not provide details.

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Harvey Weinstein's lawyers explained that he suffers from multiple health conditions and experiences chest pains.

Representatives for the producer told ABC News that Weinstein suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, fluid in his heart and lungs, and has recently battled COVID and double pneumonia.

ABC News, citing anonymous sources, also reported that the Hollywood film producer and sex offender had already undergone surgery after experiencing chest pains the previous evening.

Weinstein, 72, is scheduled to appear in court this week in preparation for his retrial to overturn one of the judgments.

The co-founder of Miramax Films, an American film production and distribution studio, was sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2020 for forcing a sex act on his assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and raping then-aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013. In 2023 A Los Angeles court sentenced Weinstein to 16 years in prison for the 2013 rape of a former model and actress, referred to in court as Jane Doe 1 (this is the name given to the people appearing anonymously in the proceedings).

It all started with a 2017 interview that actress Annabella Sciorra gave to the New Yorker magazine. In it, she claimed that Weinstein had raped her more than 20 years earlier in her New York apartment. After the interview was published, dozens of women, including several famous actresses, accused the producer of sexual harassment. The publicity surrounding the Weinstein case led to a 2017 intensification of the #MeToo movementdirected against sexual abuse in the workplace by powerful men.