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 plead for five-year sentence as they fear he’ll die behind bars
peoplemagazine.co.zaHarvey Weinstein’s lawyers have pleaded for the sentencing judge to be lenient on the disgraced producer and give him a mandatory minimum of five years behind bars.
The movie mogul is due to be sentenced on Wednesday, and could be given up to 29 years in jail after being convicted of rape and a criminal sexual act last month.
However, in legal documents filed late on Monday night, Weinstein’s legal team argued that his ill health should be taken into consideration, and anything more than five years would essentially be “a de facto life sentence”. “The grave reality is that Mr.
Weinstein may not even outlive that term,” they wrote in a letter to New York Supreme Court Justice James Burke, according to Deadline.
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