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's 2020 Rape Conviction Overturned, Judge Explains Reason Why
justjared.comHarvey Weinstein‘s 2020 rape conviction has been overturned. The decision was made today (April 25) by the New York Court of Appeals.
He will still remain in prison due to his conviction for rape in a 2022 Los Angeles court case. Keep reading to find out more… In 2020, Weinstein was found guilty of sexually assaulting Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haley at his apartment in 2006 and was also convicted of the rape of another woman, Jessica Mann, in 2013.
The case was appealed and New York State’s highest court heard the case in February. Weinstein‘s lawyers argued that the judge in the 2020 trial allowed three women to testify against him at the time whose allegations were not related to the case at hand.
The judge today ruled that a new trial must now take place for this 2020 conviction. Judge Jenny Rivera said in today’s ruling (via THR), “Under our system of justice, the accused has a right to be held to account only for the crime charged and, thus, allegations of prior bad acts may not be admitted against them for the sole purpose of establishing their propensity for criminality.
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