disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein is in Hospital in New York for emergency heart surgery lawyers for Weinstein said he was taken on Sunday evening from the Rikers Island jail to bellue hospital they did not provide further details his lawyers say he has been suffering from multiple health conditions and has been experiencing chest pains Weinstein 72 was convicted of rape and sexual assault in 2020 in New York and jail for 23 years those convictions were overturned this April when an appeal judge ruled he did not receive a fair trial he faces a possible retrial later this year