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.
Harvey Weinstein appeals his rape conviction claiming trial was unfair
mirror.co.ukHarvey Weinstein's legal team have filed an appeal on his rape and sex crimes conviction, saying that the film producer had an unfair trial.
The 69-year-old disgraced movie mogul's legal representative reportedly submitted a 166-page appeal on Monday. The documents filed in Manhattan claim that the judge who was in charge of the 2020 trial allowed too much testimony about the disgraced personalities reputation and character, The Wall Street Journal reports.
They are claiming that it was unfair and that is what led the jury to convict the Hollywood name - rather than the facts of the case.
According to the outlet, they claim that witnesses were used to “merely [depict] Weinstein as loathsome” during the proceedings.
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