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 is facing additional charges. The disgraced Hollywood producer was hit with six additional criminal charges on Friday (October 2).
The charges all stem from three alleged rapes in Beverly Hills more than a decade ago, Deadline reported. “Weinstein allegedly raped a woman at a hotel sometime between September 2004 and September 2005. Weinstein is also accused of raping a second woman on two occasions between November 2009 and November 2010. Weinstein was already awaiting extradition to Los Angeles to face sexual assault and rape charges related to three other victims.
He is currently serving a 23-year sentence in state prison near Buffalo, N.Y., after being convicted in New York in February of rape and sexual assault,” the
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