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.
EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Weinstein’s condition is deteriorating quickly despite undergoing heart surgery earlier today.
Scheduled to be back in a Manhattan court this week in the lead up to a second trial on sexual assault and other sex crimes, the much accused and incarcerated producer was rushed from Rikers Island to Bellevue Hospital last night after experiencing pains in his chest.
Earlier today, 72-year Weinstein was under the knife. However, the already health addled Weinstein is in “very rough shape,” I hear. “Critical condition,” another individual close to events told Deadline of the ex-mogul’s status.
With numerous cases of Covid and other medical issues over the six years since Weinstein’s arrest on rape charges, the Pulp Fiction EP has been close to death before and come out the other side.
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