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 lawyer slams NY prosecutors for ‘delay’ on new charges as disgraced movie mogul ails in jail
nypost.comseeking additional charges.“It’s an ongoing process,” the prosecutor added.But Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, complained that his client has been behind bars for nearly five years as he accused prosecutors of using “delay tactics.”Aidala listed a slew of health problems that Weinstein has and that he says are only getting worse while he’s locked up.According to doctors, Weinstein has fluid in his heart, spinal stenosis and macular degeneration in his eyes.“His diabetes is going through the roof because the diet they give at Rikers Island is 90% sugar,” Aidala said. “He’s basically getting no treatment for that.”Weinstein is unfairly being held in solitary confinement, Aidala added.“There is a lot of light at the end of the tunnel for Mr.
Weinstein. He’s a not a young man, he’s a sick man. He has young kids and wants to get out,” the defense attorney said. “All I’m asking for is time.
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