[Music] Harvey Weinstein the disgraced movie mobile currently serving time for a sexual assault conviction while awaiting retrial on several additional charges has been rushed from Riker's Island jail to Bellevue Hospital for an emergency surgery Weinstein 72 was brought to the hospital on Sunday night and has since undergone a procedure in surgery on his heart Representatives Craig rothfeld and Judah Engel Mayer confirmed to Entertainment Weekly as we have extensively stated before Mr Weinstein suffers a plethora of significant health issues that need ongoing treatment they said in a statement we are grateful to the executive team at the New York City Department of Correction and Riker's Island for acting swiftly and taking him to bellw hospital in July Weinstein was temporarily hospitalized for a myriad of health conditions including testing positive for covid-19 and Contracting double pneumonia this latest emergency comes days before Weinstein was next due in court where prosecutors have been presenting evidence to a grand jury regarding an alleged sexual assault that occurred sometime in a 4-month time period between late 2005 and mid 2006 in a lower Manhattan Residential Building Weinstein was previously sentenced to 23 years in prison after he was convicted of a criminal sex act in the first degree and rape in the third degree following a highly publicized trial that marked marked a watershed moment in the # me2 movement however in April of this year a New York Court of Appeals overturned the disgraced producers 2020 rape conviction and ordered to retrial in a 4 to3 decision the court found that the trial's judge Justice James M Burke made a critical error by allowing the 2020 jury to hear from molanu Witnesses a collection of women who levied sexual assault allegations against Weinstein that he had not been charged with committee to highlight history of bad acts although Weinstein's New York conviction has been overturned the media mobile has remained in prison as he was sentenced to 16 years in California last year after he was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a woman in 2013 Weinstein has denied any wrongdoing and has said his sexual encounters with women were consensual