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 Prosecutors Drop Four Charges In L.A. Rape Trial; Jennifer Siebel Newsom Testimony Continues
deadline.comProsecutors in Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles rape trial said Tuesday that they have decided not to move forward with four counts relating to Jane Doe #5.
It means the producer now faces seven counts against the four remaining Jane Does: two counts of rape and five counts of sexual assault.
The news was somewhat expected as the L.A. District Attorney’s office left out Jane Doe #5 during its opening arguments, but said it was leaving open the possibility of her testifying.
After the prosecution revealed in today’s morning session that it would not move forward, the defense requested and Judge Lisa Lench granted the request to drop the charges of two counts of forcible rape and two counts of forcible oral copulation.Weinstein was in the downtown Los Angeles courtroom today as he has been throughout the length of the trial.
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