Sickly Harvey Weinstein appears in court after revealing shock cancer diagnosis from jail

Harvey Weinstein appeared successful tribunal connected Wednesday aft revealing he has been diagnosed pinch cancer.

The convicted rapist, 72, was backmost successful tribunal successful New York for a proceeding up of his retrial connected activity crimes charges stemming from his landmark #MeToo case.

Sporting a suit, necktie and American emblem pin, a handcuffed Weinstein said animatedly from a wheelchair during nan hearing, arsenic he held a transcript of nan caller Conclave by Robert Harris.

A thinner Weinstein has been receiving curen down bars astatine Rikers Island for a uncommon type of bony marrow crab known arsenic chronic myeloid leukemia.

He spent astir of nan summertime hospitalized pinch various maladies, from Covid and double pneumonia to needing fluid connected his bosom and lungs removed. 

The disgraced shaper is facing retrial connected 2 activity crime charges aft New York's highest tribunal overturned his 2020 condemnation earlier this year. After nan proceeding sewage underway connected Wednesday, Judge Curtis Farber granted a prosecution petition to consolidate that lawsuit and a newer complaint into a azygous trial.

Weinstein was besides deed successful September pinch a caller complaint accusing him of different assault. He has pleaded not guilty.

The erstwhile mogul was convicted connected charges that he forcibly performed oral activity connected a TV and movie accumulation adjunct successful 2006, and rape successful nan 3rd grade for an onslaught connected an aspiring character successful 2013. 

In nan caller charge, prosecutors opportunity he forced oral activity connected a different female successful a Manhattan edifice successful nan outpouring of 2006.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s agency had based on successful tribunal filings that holding abstracted tests would beryllium 'extraordinarily inefficient' and discarded judicial resources. Prosecutors said nan cases person important overlap arsenic they impact akin criminal statutes, witnesses, master grounds and documentary evidence. 

Weinstein’s lawyers had based on successful tribunal filings that nan cases should stay separate. They said prosecutors are attempting to 'expand nan scope' of nan court-ordered retrial and toggle shape it into 'an wholly caller proceeding' by including nan caller charges.

There’s besides nan mobility of erstwhile Weinstein’s retrial is expected to really begin.

Faber had tentatively scheduled Weinstein’s proceedings to unfastened connected November 12, but some defense lawyers and prosecutors person voiced concerns nan day won’t springiness their broadside capable clip to prepare.

Weinstein was besides convicted of rape successful Los Angeles successful 2022, though his lawyers person appealed.

He has denied that he raped aliases sexually assaulted anyone. 

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 room astatine Bellevue Hospital successful New York City successful September aft having suffered thorax pains.

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

He had besides spent 10 days successful Bellevue successful April, pinch Aidala saying that nan clip that Weinstein has 'a batch of problems' and was 'somewhat of a train 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 later had a stent inserted to unblock an artery.

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.