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 hit with an additional sexual assault charge in Los Angeles
pinkvilla.comDisgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York for rape, has been hit with a new sexual assault charge in Los Angeles.
The LA District Attorney’s office, which filed the original case in January, recently stated that the movie mogul is facing a new felony charge of sexual battery by restraint.
The latest charge has stemmed from an incident that took place at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2010. The attorney claimed that Harvey touched the victim’s intimate parts without consent and she was then restrained by Harvey and an accomplice.
She was held against her will by the two for sexual arousal, sexual gratification, and sexual abuse, The Guardian reported. Los Angeles County District
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