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.
