Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus.
The former director was jailed for 23 years earlier this month after being convicted of third-degree rape and first-degree sexual assault. He is currently serving his sentence at Wende Correctional Facility in western New York, where one prisoner has already tested positive for the virus, per the Mirror.
Related - Accuser Rose McGowan issued the following message to Weinstein on his birthday:The report was made by state prison officials to CNHI newspapers on the condition of anonymity today, per the Niagara Gazette. However, sources close to Weinstein have yet to confirm the report.
Juda Engelmayer, Weinstein's spokesperson, said that the rapist's team "had not heard anything like that yet."
According to the prison officials who made the report, the 68-year-old has been placed in isolation.
A source told the Daily Mail: "He tested positive and is quarantined."
Related - This man reveals his symptoms of coronavirus:Weinstein was moved to Wende Correctional Facility on Wednesday of this week, from Rikers Island in New York City. The Niagara Gazette reports that he allegedly contracted the virus prior to being moved.
Earlier on Sunday, 7 Eyewitness News reported that two inmates at Wende had tested positive for COVID-19, although the news station did not identify Weinstein as one of them.
New York is currently the epicenter of the US outbreak of the coronavirus with a confirmed 15,168 confirmed cases today, per the New York Times.
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