Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentMore than a full year after Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault, lawyers for the disgraced former Hollywood honcho — who is currently serving 23 years in New York prison — have filed an appeal, arguing that the judge made errors that resulted in a rigged trial.Weinstein — who was convicted in Feb.
2020, culminating a two-month trial in New York Criminal Court — still awaits trial in L.A., where he faces 11 additional counts of rape and sexual assault, which could result in 140 years in prison.The appeal was long-expected, as Weinstein’s attorneys declared to the press outside of the courthouse in early 2020 that they’d be appealing on behalf of their client, who maintains his.
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