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 battling cancer. A rep for the disgraced movie producer and former studio exec has confirmed that Weinstein has been diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia, a form of bone marrow cancer.
The news comes months after Weinstein battled other health issues, including an emergency heart surgery that he almost didn’t survive. Keep reading to find out more… Weinstein’s spokesperson Juda Engelmayer told Variety, “Craig Rothfeld, Mr.
Weinstein’s authorized legal healthcare representative in New York State, expresses profound dismay at the speculation surrounding Mr.
Weinstein’s medical condition. It is both troubling and unacceptable that such private and confidential health matters have become a subject of public discourse.
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