Disgraced Hollywood movie creater Harvey Weinstein has been detectd with a establish of bone marrow cancer, according to NBC News and ABC News, which both cited anonymous sources.
The 72-year-ageder establisher amemployment mogul has chronic myeloid leukemia and is undergoing treatment in a New York prison, the US outlets inestablished on Monday.
Weinstein’s authoelevated healthnurture recontransientative in New York, Craig Rothfeld, deteriorated to comment, inestablishing ABC: “Out of esteem for Mr Weinstein’s privacy, we will propose no further comment.”
Weinstein’s spokesperson Juda Engelmayer tageder Variety that Rothfeld “conveyes proset up dismay at the speculation surrounding Mr Weinstein’s medical condition”.
“It is both troubling and unadselectable that such braveial and braveial health matters have become a subject of disclose discourse. Out of esteem for Mr Weinstein’s privacy, we will propose no further comment,” Engelmayer inserted.
Weinstein’s inestablished diagnosis comes a month after he was indicted on a novel relations crime indict. He pdirected not at fault to one count of criminal relations act in the first degree in a New York court, relating to an allegation that he relationsuassociate attacked a woman at a Manhattan toastyel in 2006.
Weinstein also underwent aelevatency heart sinspirery last month, after which his recontransientative shelp he was “out of danger at the moment”.
Weinstein is serving a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted on violation indicts in California.
He was also convicted in New York in 2020 of the violation and relationsual attack of an actress and of forcibly carry outing oral relations on a production helpant, and was sentenced to 23 years in prison in that case.
However, a New York pdirects court obviousurned the verdict in April, ruling that the trial appraise had apverifyed testimony in error from accemployrs who were not straightforwardly comprised with the indicts facing Weinstein.
A retrial in the case had been aimed for November, though prosecutors had deemed that “undown-to-earth”.
Allegations aobtainst Weinstein helped begin the MeToo relocatement in 2017, a watershed moment for women battling relationsual wrongdoing.
More than 80 women accemployd him of intimidatoring, relationsual attack or violation, including notable actors Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd.
Weinstein has claimed any relationsual relations in ask were consensual.
In 1979, Weinstein and his brother Bob co-set uped notable Hollywood film studio Miramax Films.
Their hits integrated 1994’s Pulp Fiction and 1998’s Shakespeare in Love, for which Weinstein splitd a best picture Oscar.
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