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 is 'miserable' in jail after bad fall
torontosun.comHarvey Weinstein is “miserable” in Rikers Island jail, after suffering a bad fall on Saturday night.The disgraced movie mogul was transported to the facility over the weekend, moving from Bellevue Hospital in New York where he had been held since he was convicted of rape and a criminal sexual act last month.
After undergoing an operation to help the “heart palpitations” he had reportedly been having since the conviction, Weinstein was well enough to move to Rikers Island.And revealing details about the 67-year-old’s living conditions inside the prison’s North Infirmary Command, his spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said he’s sharing a cell with two “older gentlemen”.“It’s a prison cell,” she added to the New York Post’s gossip column, Page Six.
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