Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been rushed to hospital for heart surgery.
The 71-year-old man was transferred to Bellevue Hospital from Rikers Island in New York City on Monday.
The convicted rapist reported experiencing chest pains before being rushed to hospital. ABC News reported.
This comes as Weinstein is expected to appear in court later this week, as prosecutors retrying his rape case are moving to potentially charge him with up to three additional sexual assaults.
Weinstein appeared in a wheelchair at recent court appearances.
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Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was rushed to hospital for emergency heart surgery. He is seen in August 2024
Weinstein remains in prison after being convicted of raping and sexually assaulting Italian actress and model Evgeniya Chernyshova in Los Angeles and was sentenced to 16 years.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office in New York has begun presenting to a grand jury evidence of up to three previously unfiled allegations against Weinstein: two sexual assaults in the mid-2000s and another sexual assault in 2016.
In April, New York’s highest court overturned Weinstein’s rape and sexual assault convictions and ordered a new trial. The state’s Court of Appeals found that the judge in the 2020 trial unfairly allowed testimony from women whose allegations against Weinstein were not part of the case.
Prosecutors shared information about the additional charges the grand jury is considering at a court conference Tuesday.
They include alleged sexual assaults at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, now known as the Roxy Hotel, and at a residential building in Lower Manhattan between late 2005 and mid-2006, and an alleged sexual assault at a Tribeca hotel in May 2016.
