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 heading to Rikers Island prison
torontosun.comHarvey Weinstein is set to be discharged from hospital and transferred to New York’s Rikers Island prison.The disgraced movie mogul was admitted to Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital with chest pains last Wednesday, shortly after he was sentenced to serve 23 years behind bars for rape and sexual assault.He has been under doctors’ care ever since, but on Monday, his spokesman Juda Engelmayer revealed Weinstein was well enough to be released and will be heading back to Rikers Island, where he will be held in the medical ward, North Infirmary Command.“It’s known that he has a weak heart,” Engelmayer tells Variety. “So, right after the sentencing, when he went back to Rikers, he was faint and talking funny, and the staff at Rikers felt it was best
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