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 Rikers
torontosun.comHarvey Weinstein has finally been transported to Rikers Island jail, where he’ll await sentencing for sex crimes.The disgraced movie mogul checked in to Bellevue Hospital in New York hours after he was convicted of rape and a criminal sexual act last month, complaining of heart palpitations.He underwent an operation to put a stent in his heart on Wednesday and, according to publicist Juda Engelmayer, the Department of Corrections was “moving him as we speak to the Rikers infirmary unit,” during a recent chat with CNN.Senior Department of Corrections sources told TMZ that Weinstein has been staying on the sixth floor of the main building of the North Infirmary Command, where he has the whole floor to himself in a bid to keep him safe from
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