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 moved to maximum security prison where John Lennon’s murderer is an inmate
metro.co.ukHarvey Weinstein has been transferred to a maximum security prison in upstate New York to carry out his 23 year sentence. The disgraced producer was being held in the notorious Brooklyn prison Rikers Island, after a five day hospital stay when he began experiencing chest pains following his sentencing for sex crimes.
Now, the 68-year-old has been assigned to the Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, New York, a New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has confirmed.
The jail, near Buffalo, houses more than 950 inmates, with Mark David Chapman – who was convicted of murdering The Beatles legend John Lennon – currently residing there.
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