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 pleaded not guilty to a new sex crime charge in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday afternoon.The fallen movie mogul was hit with one count of first-degree criminal sexual act as he awaits retrial on his historic 2020 #MeToo case.But details of the new allegations were not immediately available.Weinstein, 72, was brought to Manhattan Supreme Court from Bellevue hospital where he’s been recovering from emergency heart surgery.
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