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 ‘placed in isolation’ amid coronavirus fears
metro.co.ukHarvey Weinstein has been placed in isolation amid coronavirus fears, along with prison employees he’d been in contact with, according to reports.
Earlier this week it was alleged the convicted rapist, who has just started his 23-year sentence in prison, had contracted the deadly Covid-19 virus. Read the latest updates: Coronavirus news live.
He’d been holed up in notorious Rikers Island jail, before being moved to Wende Correctional Facility where it’s been claimed two inmates had tested positive.
The state prison system confirmed that two inmates at Wende tested positive for Covid-19, but did not identify them, while Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, said Weinstein
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