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 grim-faced as he's led away by cops 'fearing he'll die in jail'
mirror.co.ukWheelchair bound Harvey Weinstein was led away a Manhattan courthouse by police after being handed a 23 year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault.
The disgraced producer - once one of Hollywood's most powerful men - was pushed out in his chair by a guard and escorted onto a waiting bus with fellow inmates before heading straight to jail where he will begin his sentence.
67-year-old Weinstein appeared to have a blanket wrapped around his shoulders and carried some items on his lap before the departure.
After being outed in the #MeToo movement in 2016, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years for forcibly performing oral sex on production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and an additional three years for third-degree rape for his attack on
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