BREAKING NEWS: Harvey Weinstein has coronavirus: Rapist movie mogul tests positive and is put in isolation just days after arriving in an upstate New York prison to start his 23-year sentence
- A source told DailyMail.com on Sunday: ‘He tested positive and is quarantined’
- Weinstein, 68, is isolated at Wende Correctional Facility in Western New York
- The shamed producer told prison staff he believed he has the virus when he entered the state prison system last Wednesday from notorious Rikers Island
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Rapist Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for coronavirus.
Weinstein, who turned 68 last Thursday, is being isolated at Wende Correctional Facility in Western New York.
Weinstein told prison staff he believed he has the virus when he entered the state prison system last Wednesday from notorious Rikers Island where a number of inmates have the virus.
A source told DailyMail.com: ‘He tested positive and is quarantined.’
Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual assault. DailyMail.com has contacted his spokesman for comment.
New York City was hit by the nation’s largest coronavirus jail outbreak to date this week, with at least 38 people testing positive at the notorious Rikers Island complex and nearby facilities – more than half of them incarcerated men, the board that oversees the city’s jail system said Saturday.
Disgraced film mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has contracted coronavirus