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

Harvey Weinstein underwent emergency heart surgery on Monday.

Weinstein, 72, was taken from Rikers Island to Bellevue, his attorney Arthur Aidala confirmed to Fox 5.

No further details were provided.

The disgraced entertainment mogul is incarcerated at New York's Rikers Island prison, where he is serving a 23-year sentence for a 2020 rape conviction.

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

Harvey Weinstein was admitted to hospital on Monday for emergency heart surgery. (Kena Betancur-Pool/Getty Images)

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 on April 25 and ordered a retrial, marking 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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