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 Battery Charge By L.A. District Attorney
deadline.comBy Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic Harvey Weinstein is out of coronavirus isolation in a New York state prison, but the convicted sex offender now is facing even more charges out in Los Angeles.
Just over four months after L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey hit the Oscar-winning producer with a series and rape and sex-crime charges, the City of Angels prosecutor has added a sexual battery by restraint charge.
Already sentenced to 27 years behind bars last month, Weinstein now faces 30-plus years in prison on the West Coast, and the extradition process has begun. “We are continuing to build and strengthen our case,” Lacey said. “As we gather corroborating evidence, we have reached out to other possible sexual
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