Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has bone marrow most cancers, in line with a report within the US.
Weinstein’s representatives have beforehand stated he suffers from diabetes, hypertension, spinal stenosis and fluid in his coronary heart and lungs.
Final month, he had emergency surgical procedure to take away fluid round his coronary heart and lungs and in July he was in hospital after testing constructive for COVID-19 and contracting double pneumonia.
His well being points come as Weinstein awaits a retrial over his 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction, which was overturned by New York’s highest courtroom in April.
The Court docket of Appeals dominated he didn’t get a good trial because the choose who presided over the listening to unfairly allowed testimony towards him primarily based on allegations that weren’t a part of the case.
Regardless of that conviction being overturned, he has remained in jail attributable to one other conviction final 12 months, for the rape of an actress in Los Angeles in 2013.
He’s interesting towards that conviction.
Weinstein nonetheless faces two different felony counts, to which he additionally pleaded not responsible, together with one other felony sexual act cost and a rape cost.
He pleaded not responsible to a further cost of sexual assault final month.
As soon as one of the highly effective individuals in Hollywood, Weinstein co-founded the movie and tv manufacturing corporations Miramax and The Weinstein Firm.
He produced movies such because the Oscar-winning Shakespeare In Love, Pulp Fiction, and The Crying Sport.
