Harvey Weinstein diagnosed with chronic leukemia as disgraced mogul, 72, receives treatment behind bars

Jailed movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's wellness woes proceed arsenic he has reportedly been diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia. 

The convicted rapist, 72, spent astir of the summertime hospitalized with assorted maladies, from Covid and treble pneumonia to needing fluid connected his bosom and lungs removed.

Weinstein is presently getting attraction astatine his Rikers Island situation location for chronic myeloid leukemia, a uncommon bony marrow cancer, NBC News reported. 

A typical for Weinstein declined remark successful a statement. 

Weinstein is presently serving a condemnation for rape astatine Rikers Island situation and was rushed to Bellevue late Sunday owed to 'severe aesculapian conditions'. 

His lawyer Arthur Aidala says helium warned jailhouse officials: 'This feline is going to dice connected your ticker if you don't bash something.'

Weinstein has denied that helium raped oregon sexually assaulted anyone. 

He remains successful custody successful New York portion awaiting a retrial successful Manhattan that's tentatively scheduled to statesman November 12. He is owed backmost successful tribunal for a pretrial proceeding this Thursday. 

Weinstein has been successful and retired of Bellevue Hospital since returning to Rikers Island from authorities situation successful April aft an appeals tribunal overturned his 2020 rape and intersexual battle convictions and ordered a caller trial. 

He underwent pericardiocentesis surgery at Bellevue Hospital in New York City in September after having suffered thorax pains.

In July, helium was hospitalized with COVID-19 and pneumonia successful some lungs, his representatives said.

He had besides spent 10 days successful Bellevue successful April, with Aidala saying that the clip that Weinstein has 'a batch of problems' and was 'somewhat of a bid wreck health-wise'.

After his February 2020 conviction, Weinstein near tribunal successful an ambulance and detoured to Bellevue, complaining of thorax pains and precocious humor pressure. He aboriginal had a stent inserted to unblock an artery.

After his sentencing a fewer weeks later, helium returned to the infirmary with much thorax pains. He aboriginal tested affirmative for COVID-19 conscionable days aft being transferred to a authorities situation adjacent Buffalo.

In 2021, erstwhile Weinstein was being extradited to California for prosecution connected rape charges there, his lawyers disclosed a litany of afflictions, including: diabetes, coronary artery disease, anemia, hypertension, obstructive slumber apnea, chronic little backmost pain, sciatica, chronic limb pain, arthritis, and oculus ailments that had severely degraded his vision. At caller tribunal hearings, helium has utilized a wheelchair.

The state's Court of Appeals found that the justice successful the 2020 proceedings unfairly allowed grounds from women whose claims against Weinstein weren't portion of the case.

In September, prosecutors disclosed that they've begun taking steps to perchance complaint him with up to 3 further enactment assaults.

They said they've started presenting grounds to a expansive jury of up to 3 antecedently uncharged allegations against Weinstein - 2 intersexual assaults successful the mid-2000s and different intersexual battle successful 2016.

A ballot connected a imaginable caller indictment was expected soon.

At the aforesaid time, British prosecutors said past week they were dropping 2 charges of indecent battle against Weinstein successful 2022 due to the fact that determination was 'no longer a realistic imaginable of conviction'.

Weinstein became the astir salient villain of the #MeToo movement, which took basal successful 2017 erstwhile women began to spell nationalist with accounts of his behavior. 

At the archetypal trial, Weinstein was convicted of forcibly performing oral enactment connected a TV and movie accumulation adjunct successful 2006 and rape successful the 3rd grade for an onslaught connected an aspiring histrion successful 2013. Those allegations volition beryllium portion of his retrial. 

Weinstein's acquittals connected charges of predatory intersexual battle and first-degree rape inactive stand.

After the retrial, Weinstein is owed to commencement serving a 16-year condemnation successful California for a abstracted rape condemnation successful Los Angeles, authorities said. Weinstein was convicted successful Los Angeles successful 2022.

Weinstein, the co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Company movie studios, was erstwhile 1 of the astir almighty radical successful Hollywood, producing specified Oscar winners arsenic Pulp Fiction and Shakespeare successful Love.