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 diagnosed with cancer in latest health concern for disgraced Hollywood producer: source
nypost.comNBC News, which first broke the news. Weinstein is receiving treatment at Rikers, sourcs told the outlet. Once one of the top producers in the movie biz, Weinstein fell from grace as the #MeToo movement gained ground around him and dozens of women came forward, accusing him of sexual assault.Several actresses claimed that he retaliated against women who spurned his advances, often derailing their careers.Weinstein was convicted in 2020 of first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape.
He was sentenced to 23 years in prison, but his conviction was overturned on appeal in April.He remains in prison while he appeals a separate 2022 conviction for three sexual assault charges.
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