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NEW YORK -- Harvey Weinstein was rushed connected Monday from Rikers Island, wherever helium is being held, to Bellevue Hospital for exigency bosom country aft experiencing thorax pains, sources told ABC News.
The exigency comes arsenic Weinstein is owed successful tribunal this week successful New York, wherever prosecutors had been presenting grounds to a expansive assemblage arsenic they enactment to unafraid a caller indictment against Weinstein connected enactment crimes charges.
Weinstein, 72, has denied immoderate wrongdoing and has said his intersexual encounters with women were consensual.
Weinstein has appeared successful tribunal precocious successful a wheelchair and has asked to enactment successful custody astatine Rikers wherever helium has been undergoing aesculapian care.
FILE - Former movie shaper Harvey Weinstein appears successful Manhattan Criminal Court successful New York, July 9, 2024.
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Weinstein has been successful an retired of Bellevue Hospital since returning to Rikers Island from authorities situation successful April aft an appeals tribunal overturned his 2020 rape and intersexual battle convictions and ordered a caller trial.
In July, helium was hospitalized for attraction for a assortment of wellness problems including COVID-19 and pneumonia successful some lungs, his representatives said.
The state's Court of Appeals recovered that the justice successful the 2020 proceedings unfairly allowed grounds from women whose claims against Weinstein weren't portion of the case.
Last week, prosecutors disclosed that they've begun taking steps to perchance complaint him with up to 3 further enactment assaults.
They said they've started presenting grounds to a expansive assemblage of up to 3 antecedently uncharged allegations against Weinstein -- 2 intersexual assaults successful the mid-2000s and different intersexual battle successful 2016.
A ballot connected a imaginable caller indictment is expected soon.
At the aforesaid time, British prosecutors said past week they were dropping 2 charges of indecent battle against Weinstein successful 2022 due to the fact that determination was "no longer a realistic imaginable of conviction.''
Weinstein has denied that helium raped oregon sexually assaulted anyone. He remains successful custody successful New York portion awaiting a retrial successful Manhattan that's tentatively scheduled to statesman Nov. 12. He is owed backmost successful tribunal for a pretrial proceeding Sept. 12.
Weinstein became the astir salient villain of the #MeToo movement, which took basal successful 2017 erstwhile women began to spell nationalist with accounts of his behavior.
At the archetypal trial, Weinstein was convicted of forcibly performing oral enactment connected a TV and movie accumulation adjunct successful 2006 and rape successful the 3rd grade for an onslaught connected an aspiring histrion successful 2013. Those allegations volition beryllium portion of his retrial. Weinstein's acquittals connected charges of predatory intersexual battle and first-degree rape inactive stand.
After the retrial, Weinstein is owed to commencement serving a 16-year condemnation successful California for a abstracted rape condemnation successful Los Angeles, authorities said. Weinstein was convicted successful Los Angeles successful 2022.
Weinstein, the co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Company movie studios, was erstwhile 1 of the astir almighty radical successful Hollywood, producing specified Oscar winners arsenic "Pulp Fiction" and "Shakespeare successful Love."
(ABC News and the Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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