Days earlier than he’s set to seem in New York court docket, disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein had emergency coronary heart surgical procedure and stays in “essential situation,” a supply near the producer advised Deadline. ABC Information first reported on Monday that Weinstein had been “rushed to Bellevue Hospital” on Sunday night time “because of a number of medical situations,” his representatives Craig Rothfeld and Juda Engelmayer mentioned in an announcement.
“We will verify that Mr. Weinstein had a process and surgical procedure on his coronary heart [on Monday] nevertheless can’t remark any additional than that,” the reps’ assertion continued. “As we’ve extensively said earlier than, Mr. Weinstein suffers a plethora of great well being points that want ongoing remedy. We’re grateful to the manager group on the New York Metropolis Division of Correction and Rikers Island for appearing swiftly in taking him to Bellevue Hospital.”
In line with Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala, his 72-year-old consumer contacted Rothfeld a number of occasions over the weekend to relay that he was not feeling nicely, as reported by The New York Occasions. “This man goes to die in your watch in the event you don’t do one thing,” Aidala mentioned he and Mr. Rothfeld had written through e-mail to officers at Rikers and Bellevue earlier than Weinstein’s hospital switch.
Rothfeld mentioned that Weinstein underwent surgical procedure to “alleviate the large quantity of fluid on his lungs and coronary heart” on Monday morning and is now recovering within the intensive care unit. Weinstein reportedly referred to as Rothfeld after the operation and mentioned he’s “grateful to be alive.”
The emergency arrives as Weinstein is due in court docket for a pretrial listening to on Thursday, September 12, in New York, the place prosecutors had been presenting proof to a grand jury so as to safe a brand new indictment towards Weinstein on intercourse crimes prices. This April, the New York Courtroom of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s 2020 sexual assault conviction in a surprising 4-3 determination. The court docket dominated that by permitting girls apart from these immediately concerned within the prices towards Weinstein to testify about separate allegations, the trial court docket dedicated “egregious errors.”
Weinstein, who was additionally convicted of rape in a separate Los Angeles trial in 2022, was sentenced to 23 years in jail in New York and an extra 16 in California, to be served after his New York time period ended. Initially imprisoned at New York’s Mohawk Correctional Facility, he has been held within the Bronx’s Rikers Island as he awaits a brand new trial in November. Weinstein has denied all of the allegations towards him.
All through each trials, Weinstein has skilled a number of well being points and has appeared in court docket with the assistance of a walker or in a wheelchair.