NBC News and ABC News indicated that Weinstein, 72, who was indicted last September on a new charge of sexual assault, is suffering from chronic myelogenous leukemia and is being treated in prison New York.
This diagnosis comes after a series of health problems suffered by the former influential producer in the American film sector, which caused his case to spread worldwide waves and inspired many -victims of these attacks raise their voices in public and reveal their sexuality and gender. violence that women are exposed to.
The former head of Miramax Studios recently underwent “heart surgery”, after which he is “out of danger at the moment,” as announced on September 10 by Judah Engelmayer, one of his spokespeople.
It was reported that day that Weinstein was “transferred to Bellevue Hospital due to multiple medical symptoms,” and that he was suffering from “major health problems that require medical evaluation.”
Engelmayer expressed “concern” that the health status of the previous product had become a “topic of public debate”. “Out of respect for Weinstein’s privacy, we will not comment further,” he told Agence France-Presse, referring to reports that he had cancer on Monday.
When he appeared briefly in court in Manhattan on September 18 regarding the new charge against him for sexually assaulting a woman in 2006, he appeared pale and frail, and was in a wheelchair.
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This charge relates to the “sexual assault of a woman in a hotel in lower Manhattan on one occasion between April 29 and May 6, 2006,” according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
“Thanks to the survivor who bravely testified, Harvey Weinstein is now accused of a new violent sexual assault,” Bragg said, however, Weinstein’s defense agent, Arthur Aidala, said the accusation sexual assault on which his client is on trial goes back “about two decades.”
His new indictment, which was decided by a grand jury that includes citizens participating in the investigation along with public prosecutors, is added to a long list of charges that have been to have the old representative from 2017, for which he was tried twice, in New York and Los Angeles.
More than 80 women have accused Harvey Weinstein of harassment, sexual assault or rape, including Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd.
Harvey Weinstein will be brought back in New York, after the Court of Appeals last April handed down a 23-year prison sentence in 2020 for the rape of actress Jessica Mann in 2013 and sexually assaulted production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006.
This sudden move was seen as a setback to the “Me Too” movement that started with the Weinstein case against sexual and gender-based assaults on women.
Weinstein remains behind bars as a result of a verdict issued in Los Angeles in 2023, sentencing him to 16 years in prison in other cases of rape and sexual assault. He appealed the decision and said all sexual relations were consensual.
