Former movie mogul recently appeared in a wheelchair in a court in New York, and has been jailed at Rikers Island.
Harvey Weinstein is hospitalized in New York City after emergency heart surgery, according to the ex-movie mogul’s representatives.
« At our urging he was rushed to the hospital last night and after examination the medical team decided to perform a procedure », Arthur Aidala, one of Weinstein’s lawyers, confirmed to CBS News.
Weinstein, 72, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan from the Rikers Island jail complex « due to severe medical conditions », his publicist Juda Engelmayer and prison consultant Craig Rothfeld told the Associated Press.
« We can confirm that Mr. Weinstein had a procedure and surgery on his heart », the pair stated, declining further comment.
