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 'begged ex-wives to put in a good word for him with judge'
mirror.co.ukHarvey Weinstein reportedly begged both of his ex-wives to put in a good word for him with the judge before his sentence was handed down.
But it's said that both Eve Chilton and Georgina Chapman refused to vouch for their ex-husband. The shamed former movie mogul was sentenced to 23 years behind bars yesterday, weeks after he was found guilty of sexual assault and rape.
The New York Post reports that the 67-year-old had asked his ex-wives to send letters to the judge before his sentence was handed down.
Weinstein was married to his former assistant Eve Chilton from 1987 to 2004, and to British actress and fashion designer Georgina Chapman from 2007 to 2017.
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