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’s fate is now in the hands of the jury. After hearing a final rebuttal in the prosecution’s closing argument this morning, the West Coast panel of nine men and three women have began their deliberations in the much-accused producer’s rape trial.
The jury is set to go behind closed door and formally start those deliberations after their lunch break Friday. Looking at a maximum of 60 years to life plus five if found guilty, Weinstein has been charged with two counts of rape and five counts of sexual assault in incidents in L.A.
County from 2004 to 2013. Following a withering 2017 exposé by the New York Times and dozens of allegations over more than 40 years, the 70-year-old Pulp Fiction producer was found guilty and sentenced to 23 years in prison by a Manhattan jury in March 2020 for multiple sex crimes.
That case is currently on appeal in the Empire State. Initially charged with numerous claims in Los Angeles on January 6, 2020 as his NYC trial began, Weinstein was extradited to Los Angeles in the summer of 2021 and has been held in DTLA’s Twin Towers Correctional Facility ever since.
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