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Harvey Weinstein stands for a pretrial hearing in Manhattan criminal court, Friday, July 19, 2024, in New York. Adam Gray/Pool Photo through AP
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press
September 9, 2024
NEW YORK CITY (AP)– Jailed ex-movie magnate Harvey Weinstein went through emergency situation heart surgical treatment at a New York City healthcare facility on Monday, his agents stated.
Weinstein, 72, was required to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan from the Rikers Island prison complex late Sunday “due to extreme medical conditions,” his press agent Juda Engelmayer and jail specialist Craig Rothfeld stated.
“We can verify that Mr. Weinstein had a treatment and surgical treatment on his heart today,” they stated, decreasing more talk about his condition.
News of Weinstein's hospitalization was initially reported by ABC News.
Weinstein has actually remained in an out of Bellevue Hospital considering that going back to Rikers Island from state jail in April after an appeals court reversed his 2020 rape and sexual attack convictions and purchased a brand-new trial.
In July, he was hospitalized for treatment for a range of health issue consisting of COVID-19 and pneumonia in both lungs, his agents stated.
The state's Court of Appeals discovered that the judge in the 2020 trial unjustly permitted statement from ladies whose claims versus Weinstein weren't part of the case.
Recently, district attorneys divulged that they've started taking actions to possibly charge him with approximately 3 extra sex attacks.
They stated they've begun providing proof to a grand jury of approximately 3 formerly uncharged accusations versus Weinstein — 2 sexual attacks in the mid-2000s and another sexual attack in 2016.
A vote on a possible brand-new indictment is anticipated quickly.
At the exact same time, British district attorneys stated recently they were dropping 2 charges of indecent attack versus Weinstein in 2022 due to the fact that there was “no longer a reasonable possibility of conviction.”
He has actually rejected that he raped or sexually attacked anybody. He stays in custody in New York while waiting for a retrial in Manhattan that's tentatively arranged to start Nov. 12. He is due back in court for a pretrial hearing Sept. 12.
Weinstein ended up being the most popular bad guy of the #MeToo motion, which settled in 2017 when ladies started to go public with accounts of his habits.
At the initial trial, Weinstein was founded guilty of by force carrying out foreplay on a television and movie production assistant in 2006 and rape in the 3rd degree for an attack on an ambitious star in 2013. Those accusations will become part of his retrial. Weinstein's acquittals on charges of predatory sexual attack and first-degree rape still stand.
After the retrial, Weinstein is because of begin serving a 16-year sentence in California for a different rape conviction in Los Angeles, authorities stated. Weinstein was founded guilty in Los Angeles in 2022.
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