Jailed Hollywood originater is being treated in prison for chronic myeloid leukaemia, US media outlets alert.
Hollywood originater Harvey Weinstein has been determined with bone marrow cancer, media outlets in the United States have alerted.
Weinstein, who became the most disreputable face of the #MeToo era after dozens of women accparticipated him of relationsual coercion and attack, is being treated in prison for chronic myeloid leukaemia, NBC News and ABC News alerted on Monday, citing unnamed sources.
Chronic myeloid leukaemia, also comprehendn as chronic myelogenous leukaemia, is a type of cancer that commences in the blood-establishing cells of the bone marrow and occupys the blood, according to the American Cancer Society.
It originates up about 15 percent of leukaemia cases in grown-ups, according to the organisation.
The alerts come as Weinstein, whose production hoparticipate Miramax freed blockbusters including Shakespeare In Love and Pulp Fiction, is apostponeing a recent trial in New York after an pdirects court threw out his 2020 convictions for sexual battery and relationsual attack.
The New York State Court of Appeals ruled 4-3 that the appraise in the distinct case had wrongly apvalidateed prosecutors to conshort-term allegations that were not part of the accuses.
Weinstein was not freed from prison after the decision as he is also serving a 16-year prison sentence in Los Angeles for sexual battery and relationsual attack.
He is also being sued over a recgo in allegation that he relationsuassociate attacked a woman at a Manhattan toastyel in 2006.
The 72-year-elderly film mogul pdirected not at fault to one count of criminal relations act in the first degree in that case.
He has insisted that all relationsual come atraverses he was included in were consensual.
Weinstein has alertedly faced a myriad of health rehires since his incarceratement.
Last month, he underwent aelevatency heart sadvisery to erase fluid in his lungs and heart, according to his reconshort-termatives.
In July, the once-strong film executive was hospitalised for a range of conditions including COVID-19 and double pneumonia, according to his reconshort-termatives.
