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 in Isolated Custody After Possible Coronavirus Contraction
billboard.comHarvey Weinstein is currently being held in isolated custody after two inmates at the Wende Correctional Facility in Erie County, New York, east of Buffalo, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Michael Powers, the president of the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, told The Hollywood Reporter in a phone call, "I do know that he's in isolation." But Weinstein's camp is still not confirming a local media report that he's tested positive himself for the COVID-19 virus. “I’m not saying it’s not true," his New York-based lawyer Arthur Aidala told THR about the report."No one in our world knows.” Weinstein's prison consultant, Craig Rothfeld, said: "No one on the legal defense team has been told this.
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