Harvey Weinstein has cancer and is being treated at Rikers Island

Harvey Weinstein has cancer, Deadline can confirm. The jailed producer's diagnosis was confirmed by sources close to him. Specifically, he suffers from chronic myeloid leukemia, a form of bone marrow cancer.

Weinstein, whose health problems are serious, is being treated at Rikers Island.

NBC was first to report the news.

“It is both concerning and unacceptable that such private and confidential health matters have become the subject of public discussion,” Craig Rothfeld, Weinstein’s health care attorney, said in a statement to Deadline this evening. “Out of respect for Mr. Weinstein’s privacy, we will have no further comment.”

Weinstein underwent heart surgery on September 9th and was in critical condition afterward.

Given numerous cases of Covid and other medical problems in the six years since his arrest on rape charges, the pulp Fiction EP has been close to death before and come out the other side.

Charged with rape and arrested in May 2018 after police revelations New York Times In late 2017, decades of abuse and alleged assaults by Weinstein were detailed. The defendant was convicted of first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape in February 2020 after allegations were made by two women, Mimi Haley and Jessica Mann.

Weinstein was parked at Rikers for his 2022 sex crimes conviction in Los Angeles and his sentence to 16 years in prison. In April, his 2020 convictions and 23-year prison sentence were overturned by a divided Empire State appeals court. As a result of this action, Weinstein's lawyers formally appealed his conviction in LA in June. Last month, a Manhattan judge in July set a tentative November 12 start date for Weinstein's East Coat rape trial.