Hollywood film producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein has been released from Bellevue Hospital Center in New York and is headed to North Infirmary Command, the infirmary for inmates on Rikers Island.
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"He is being moved to Rikers as we speak," his spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday afternoon, adding that Weinstein "had a stent put in to open a blockage" in his heart.
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After a jury found the 67-year-old guilty of two sex crimes, he complained of chest pain, leading to his hospitalization at Bellevue.
The New York Times reported recently that Weinstein added a "prison consultant" named Craig Rothfeld to his team, which included a spokesman, crisis manager, four lawyers and a jury selection expert.
A sentencing for Weinstein is scheduled March 11, ABC News reported.
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