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 ‘deemed alright’ as he comes out of coronavirus isolation in jail
metro.co.ukHarvey Weinstein is no longer in medical isolation after the disgraced producer reportedly tested positive for coronavirus. The 68-year-old convicted rapist has just begin a 23-year sentence in prison after being found guilty of third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sexual act last month, but has suffered several medical problems while behind bars.
He was moved from Riker’s Island to New York’s Wende Correctional Facility amid the coronavirus outbreak, where he was said to have tested positive for Covid-19, but has now been ‘deemed alright’.
His spokesman Juda Engelmayer told Fox News: ‘He has been released from medical isolation,’ adding that he has been ‘deemed alright’.
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