(Reuters) – Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has continual myeloid leukemia (CML), NBC Information reported on Monday, citing sources.
Weinstein is at the moment present process therapy for CML, a kind of bone marrow most cancers, whereas in jail at Rikers Island in New York to face trial on rape costs, based on the NBC report.
Craig Rothfeld, Weinstein’s authorized healthcare consultant, declined remark when requested by Reuters on the standing of his well being, citing respect for Weinstein’s privateness. Weinstein, 72, has been beset with well being issues, his attorneys had earlier mentioned. He was rushed to the hospital from Rikers Island jail in September to bear coronary heart surgical procedure.
Weinstein, who has denied having any non-consensual sexual encounters with anybody, was discovered responsible on rape costs in February 2020 in a case that supplied impetus for the #MeToo motion. The New York Court docket of Appeals threw out the conviction in April, discovering Weinstein didn’t get a good trial as a result of a choose improperly allowed testimony by accusers he was not formally charged with assaulting.
He’s in jail awaiting a retrial.
Weinstein nonetheless faces two different felony counts from an earlier indictment the place he additionally pleaded not responsible, together with one other first-degree felony sexual act cost and a third-degree rape cost. In September, he pleaded not responsible to a further cost of sexual assault.
Weinstein suffers from diabetes, hypertension, spinal stenosis, fluid in his coronary heart and lungs, his representatives have beforehand mentioned.
