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 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 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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