HARVEY Weinstein has been hospitalized after experiencing chest pains, according to reports.
The disgraced former film producer and convicted sex offender, 72, was rushed from the Rikers Island jail facility to Bellevue Hospital in New York City on Monday.
Harvey Weinstein appeared in a wheelchair in Manhattan Criminal Court on July 9, 2024AFP
ReutersWeinstein arrived at New York Criminal Court for jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial on February 24, 2020[/caption]
Weinstein was rushed into an emergency heart survey, according to ABC affiliate WABC.
The emergency episode comes as Weinstein is due to appear in court later this week.
Weinstein, whose rape conviction in New York was overturned by an appeals court in April, will be retried on sex crimes on November 12.
The shamed movie mogul’s attorneys have long voiced concerns about Weinstein’s declining health as he remains in jail awaiting retrial.
Weinstein has been pictured being wheeled into court since as early as 2020 when he was first tried on sex crime charges in New York City.
He was placed in a 72-hour isolation while in prison in November 2020 after contacting Covid-19.
In 2021, as he faced trial in Los Angeles, Weinstein’s public defender argued to the judge that the former director was “almost technically blind” and suffered cardiac and back problems and diabetes.
Then, in July, Weinstein was once again hospitalized with another bout of Covid and pneumonia.
Correction officers transferred Weinstein from Rikers Island to Bellevue Hospital, where he was being treated for other conditions, including diabetes, high blood pressure, spinal stenosis, and fluid in his heart and lungs, according to his publicist.
Despite having his conviction overturned in New York, Weinstein has been forced to await his retrial behind bars because his 2022 Los Angeles conviction still stands.
Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years after being found guilty of rape, forcible oral copulation, and sexual penetration by a foreign object involving a woman known only as Jane Doe One.
The attack on the unidentified woman described only as an actress, occurred at a Los Angeles hotel in 2013, prosecutors said.
Weinstein’s legal team appealed his Los Angeles conviction weeks after his New York conviction was overturned.
Meanwhile, Weinstein’s attorneys have said their client is eager for a retrial.
“[Weinstein] is anxious to go to trial and prove his innocence,” one of his attorneys told the Associated Press after a July court hearing.
Prosecutors have said they’re looking at new sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein in his retrial.
A New York grand jury convened on September 4 to weigh on whether or not to bring new charges against Weinstein, according to NBC News.
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