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 charged with new sexual assault after being jailed for 23 years
mirror.co.ukHarvey Weinstein has been charged with another sexual assault while he's behind bars. The shamed movie mogul, 68, was sentenced to 23 years in prison earlier this year after being found guilty of rape and sexual assault.
Today, he's been handed a new charge of sexual assault relating to an alleged assault of a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel on May 11, 2010.
The charge was announced by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. It has been added to an LA case that alleged he assaulted two women in separate incidents in 2013.
It comes after Weinstein overcame coronavirus after testing positive at Wende Correctional Facility, in New York, in March. It is currently unknown when he'll be transferred to LA to face the new charges.
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