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.
serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York since being convicted of rape last year.The 69-year-old was brought into court on Wednesday in a wheelchair after losing his bid to block extradition from NYC.Weinstein was charged with 11 counts of rape and sexual assault in California relating to five women.His lawyer, Mark Werksman, entered a not guilty plea to all charges and said he planned to challenge three of the counts, citing the state’s statute of limitations.Weinstein, who wore a blue disposable face mask, spoke briefly during the five-minute part of the hearing open to the public.Judge Sergio Tapia told him, ‘good luck Mr Weinstein’, to which the convicted rapist replied: ‘Thank you very much.’Weinstein was one of the most powerful.
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