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 granted appeal after 'juror lied about writing book on sexual predators'
dailystar.co.ukREAD MORE: Harvey Weinstein's penis deformity cause unveiled as grisly condition A court source told NBC News that Wednesday's ruling means that oral arguments will be heard next year before the entire court.
Harvey's attorney, Artur Aidala told Page Six: "Harvey lives to fight another day." “We are hopeful the entire court will find that Mr.
Weinstein did not receive a fair trial and reverse his conviction.”Artur raised another issue was that "there was one juror who has written a book about sexual predators that she lied about during jury selection."Harvey's attorney added: "This isn't about whether [Weinstein] is innocent or guilty, but if he got a fair trial or not a fair trial.""It's about whether the trial judge followed the law.'We would hope we would get a decision in late spring, early summer of 2023."Harvey has spent the majority of the last two years in prison, but is currently in a Los Angeles jail awaiting trial next month.For more of the latest showbiz news from Daily Star, make sure you sign up for one of our newsletters here.He was convicted in February 2020 on two charges of committing a criminal sexual act in the first-degree and third-degree rape and was sentenced to a New York State prison.More than 80 women accused the Oscar-winning producer of sexual assault and harassment.
In Los Angeles, he was charged with 11 counts of rape and sexual assault last year.The convicted sex offender pleaded not guilty to the alleged crime as he insisted that his relations with the women were consensual.It comes after one of the jurors in the Weinstein case, Amanda Brainerd, wrote a book about "predatory older men" called Age of Consent.
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