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 facing new sexual battery charge
peoplemagazine.co.zaLos Angeles prosecutors have slapped incarcerated rapist Harvey Weinstein with a new sexual battery charge. The disgraced movie mogul, who is currently serving 23 years behind bars in New York, already had four felony counts filed against him in Los Angeles in January, and on Friday, authorities added one more to the list.
The sexual battery charge relates to an alleged incident which took place at a Beverly Hills hotel in May, 2010. According to TMZ, the reported victim was previously interviewed by detectives about the encounter in October, but only provided further information to confirm it did not fall outside of the 10-year statute of limitations last month.
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