Harvey Weinstein was taken from prison to hospital to undergo emergency heart surgery

Harvey Weinstein underwent emergency heart surgery on Monday.

Weinstein, 72, was transferred from Rikers Island to Bellevue on Sunday evening due to “multiple medical complications,” Fox News Digital can confirm. The film producer underwent heart surgery today.

“As we have previously detailed, Mr. Weinstein suffers from a variety of serious health issues that require ongoing treatment,” Craig Rothfeld and Juda Engelmayer, Weinstein's authorized representatives, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “We are grateful to the leadership team at the New York City Department of Correction and Rikers Island for moving him to Bellevue Hospital so quickly.”

The disgraced entertainment mogul is in New York's Rikers Island prison while awaiting retrial on rape charges.

Harvey Weinstein hospitalized in New York with Covid-19 and double pneumonia

Weinstein has been in and out of court since his New York rape conviction was overturned in April. A judge has tentatively scheduled his retrial to begin on November 12.

In late July, Weinstein was hospitalized with double pneumonia and COVID.

“Weinstein is being treated for a variety of health issues that continue to plague him on a daily basis, including diabetes, high blood pressure, spinal stenosis, fluid accumulation in his heart and lungs, and various other ailments,” spokesman Craig Rothfeld told Fox News Digital at the time.

“In addition, Mr. Weinstein tested positive for COVID and contracted bilateral pneumonia,”

Harvey Weinstein will appear in Manhattan Criminal Court on July 9. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

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A New York appeals court Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction overturned and ordered a retrial on April 25, a stunning reversal of a landmark #MeToo case.

In a 4-3 decision, the court found that the judge in the Weinstein trial had allowed prosecutors to call women as witnesses who had testified that Weinstein had assaulted them, even though their allegations did not specifically relate to the entertainment mogul's allegations.

Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison after convicted in February 2020 of forced oral sex on television and film production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006 and third-degree rape of hairdresser Jessica Mann in 2013.

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Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison before his conviction was overturned. (Getty Images)

He was acquitted of first-degree rape and two counts of sexual assault after actress Annabella Sciorra made rape allegations against him in the 1990s. Weinstein denies ever having consensual sex.

Ultimately, the appeals court concluded that the trial judge should have only allowed witnesses to the sexual assaults that were Weinstein's charges. During his trial, several women testified about sexual assaults that Weinstein allegedly committed, even though that was not the reason he was charged.

After Weinstein’s conviction in New York in 2020, he was extradited to California in July 2021 to face allegations of sexual assault made by four women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills between 2004 and 2013.

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