Harvey Weinstein is hospitalized in New York Metropolis after emergency coronary heart surgical procedure, in keeping with the ex-movie mogul’s representatives. 

“At our urging he was rushed to the hospital final evening and after examination the medical workforce determined to carry out a process,” Arthur Aidala, one among Weinstein’s legal professionals, confirmed to CBS Information.

Weinstein, 72, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan from the Rikers Island jail complicated “resulting from extreme medical circumstances,” his publicist Juda Engelmayer and jail advisor Craig Rothfeld advised the Related Press.

“We will affirm that Mr. Weinstein had a process and surgical procedure on his coronary heart,” the pair acknowledged, declining additional remark. 

The event was first reported by ABC Information.

The disgraced Hollywood determine is awaiting retrial on rape and sexual assault prices in Manhattan.

After the New York case is completed, Weinstein is to return to California to serve a 16-year sentence for a separate rape conviction. 

He was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 whereas already serving a 23-year sentence in New York. However his preliminary 2020 conviction in Manhattan was thrown out this spring by New York’s prime court docket, which discovered that the choose had unfairly allowed testimony primarily based on allegations exterior the realm of the trial.

Weinstein has denied raping or sexually assaulting anybody. 

Weinstein has been out and in of Bellevue Hospital since returning to Rikers Island from state jail in April.

He was hospitalized in July for well being troubles together with COVID-19 and pneumonia in each lungs, his representatives mentioned.

Weinstein turned probably the most distinguished villain of the #MeToo motion, which took root in 2017 when girls started to go public with accounts of his alleged habits.

On the unique trial, Weinstein was convicted of forcibly performing oral intercourse on a TV and movie manufacturing assistant in 2006 and rape within the third diploma for an assault on an aspiring actor in 2013. These allegations shall be a part of his retrial. 

Weinstein, the co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Firm movie studios, was as soon as some of the highly effective folks in Hollywood, producing such Oscar winners as “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love.”

—The Related Press contributed to this report.