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 new sexual assault charge in Los Angeles
foxnews.comProsecutors in Los Angeles have charged convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein with an additional count of felony sexual battery by restraint, which allegedly stemmed from an incident at a Beverly Hills hotel in May 2010, Fox News has confirmed. “We are continuing to build and strengthen our case,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said in a news release on Friday. “As we gather corroborating evidence, we have reached out to other possible sexual assault victims.
If we find new evidence of a previously unreported crime, as we did here, we will investigate and determine whether additional criminal charges should be filed.” The new charge has been added to a Los Angeles case that alleges Weinstein sexually assaulted two women in.
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