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 lawyers believe his rape conviction will be overturned after Bill Cosby’s release from prison
metro.co.ukHarvey Weinstein is hopeful that his rape conviction will now be overturned after Bill Cosby was released from prison this week.Cosby, 83, was made a free man on Wednesday after Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction.
The actor had served three years of a 10-year sentence. Disgraced Hollywood producer Weinstein was last year found guilty of criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree and sentenced to 23 years.
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