Harvey Weinstein has been taken to hospital after complaining of chest pains, according to his representative.
The disgraced movie mogul was remanded into custody on Monday morning (local time) after a jury convicted him on charges of sexual assault and third-degree rape.
Weinstein was due to be transferred to the jail on Rikers Island, but instead was diverted to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.
Bellevue is known for its psychiatric facility, but it also serves as a hospital for jail inmates.
Celebrities and activists had earlier welcomed the guilty verdict against the Academy Award-winning producer who had reigned as one of Hollywood’s most powerful figures.
“Today is a powerful day & a huge step forward in our collective healing,” tweeted actress Rose McGowan, who has accused Weinstein of raping her.
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“For the women who testified in this case, and walked through traumatic hell, you did a public service to girls and women everywhere, thank you,” tweeted actress Ashley Judd, one of the first women in October 2017 to publicly accuse Weinstein of sexual misconduct.
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“Gratitude to the brave women who’ve testified and to the jury for seeing through the dirty tactics of the defense,” tweeted actress Rosanna Arquette, who has said she resisted unwanted sexual advances by Weinstein.
“Today’s outcome in Harvey Weinstein’s New York trial is the result of the decisions of multiple women to come forward to journalists and to prosecutors at great personal cost and risk. Please keep those women in your thoughts today,” New Yorker journalist Ronan Farrow, who broke stories about allegations against Weinstein, wrote on Twitter.
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Weinstein had been free on $US2 million bond, but Justice James Burke ordered him held in jail prior to sentencing on March 11.
His attorney, Donna Rotunno, urged the judge to allow him to remain free, saying that he recently had unsuccessful back surgery and requires shots in order to keep from going blind.
Weinstein appeared in court most days with a walker, which his attorneys attribute to lingering back issues.
During a TV interview on Fox News with Martha MacCallum on Monday evening, Ms Rotunno was asked if Weinstein would be getting medical care at whichever prison facility he ends up in, since he was remanded.
Ms Rotunno said her client will be receiving medical care, and she mentioned that he was having heart palpitations on Monday, though she did not reveal that he was admitted to the hospital with chest pains.
Weinstein faces five to 29 years in prison.
-with AAP
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