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 Extradition To LA To Face Rape Charges Set For May 30, Maybe
deadline.comHarvey Weinstein could be heading out to Los Angeles within week to face multiple counts of sexual assault. Or not.In a short, but somewhat convoluted virtual hearing this morning, the lawyer for the already imprisoned producer promised to throw a habeas corpus spanner in the works if the proceedings didn’t hit the reset button.
If Weinstein’s attorney doesn’t not do that, then come May 30, LA officials will “make arrangements to have him transferred,” noted a masked Judge Kenneth Case on Friday.It likely won’t be so straightforward.“I intend to file,’ declared attorney Norman Effman to the Erie County courtroom on camera as Weinstein watched from his current maximum-security digs. “I will do it as quickly as possible, I won’t do it on the
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