Harvey Weinstein has cancer, Deadline can confirm. The incarcerated producer’s diagnosis was confirmed by sources close to him. Specifically, he has chronic myeloid leukemia, which is a form of cancer of the bone marrow.
Weinstein, whose health issues are extensive, is undergoing treatment while at Rikers Island.
“It is both troubling and unacceptable that such private and confidential health matters have become a subject of public discourse,” said Weinstein’s legal healthcare rep Craig Rothfeld in a statement to Deadline tonight. “Out of respect for Mr. Weinstein’s privacy, we will offer no further comment.”
Weinstein underwent heart surgery on September 9 and was listed in critical condition afterward.
With numerous cases of Covid and other medical issues over 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 and arrested for rape in May 2018 after revelations by the New York Times in late 2017 detailing decades of abuse and alleged assaults by Weinstein, the defendant was convicted in February 2020 on first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape after allegations by two women, Mimi Haley and Jessica Mann.
Parked at Rikers because of his 2022 conviction in Los Angeles on sex crimes and sentencing to 16 years behind bars, Weinstein saw his 2020 verdicts and 23-year sentence tossed out by a divided Empire State Appeals Court in April. Based on that move, Weinstein’s lawyers formally appealed his LA conviction in June. Last month a Manhattan judge back in July set a tentative November 12 start date for Weinstein’s the East Coat rape retrial.
NBC was first to report the news.
