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 extradition process begins in Los Angeles after he’s sentenced to 23 years
metro.co.ukThe extradition process to send Harvey Weinstein to Los Angeles has officially begun after the Hollywood producer was sentenced to 23 years in prison. Weinstein, 67, was previously found guilty of a criminal sex act in the first degree and rape in the third degree of two women in New York City.
On Wednesday (11 March), Judge James Burke handed down a sentence of 23 years at a hearing at the Manhattan Criminal Court. Now prosecutors in Los Angeles have confirmed that they’ve started the extradition process of bringing Weinstein to California, where he faces further sexual assault charges.
Prosecutors filed the charges against the disgraced producer in January shortly after his New York trial began, accusing him of sexually assaulting two
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