Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - Jailed former movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein underwent a successful emergency heart surgery on Monday morning at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, according to a legal representative.
Weinstein was moved from Rikers Island Sunday night
“due to severe medical conditions” after complaining of not feeling well, and
having a cough and weight gain, his publicist Juda Engelmayer and
representative Craig Rothfeld said.
The 72-year-old was in the ICU at the Manhattan hospital
after undergoing heart surgery Monday morning to "alleviate the massive
amount of fluid on his lung and heart."
“We can confirm that Mr Weinstein had a procedure and
surgery on his heart today,” his reps said. Rothfeld told NBC New York that
Weinstein was conscious and talking as he recovered Monday evening, and that
they aim to keep him in the hospital indefinitely through the trial to deal
with his ailments.
Weinstein remains in custody in New York while awaiting
retrial on rape and sexual assault charges in Manhattan.
He has been in and out of Bellevue Hospital since returning
to Rikers Island from state prison in April.
In July, he was hospitalized for treatment for a variety of
health problems including COVID-19 and pneumonia in both lungs, his
representatives said.
Weinstein, who has denied that he raped or sexually
assaulted anyone, was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 while already serving a
23-year sentence in New York.
His 2020 conviction in Manhattan was thrown out earlier in
the spring by the state’s top court, which ruled that the judge in the original
trial unfairly allowed testimony against Weinstein based on allegations that
weren’t part of the case.
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