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 victims spoke out in court before sentencing: ‘Rape is forever’
metro.co.ukHarvey Weinstein’s victims spoke out in court before he was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault, with one of them saying that rape is ‘forever’.
On 24 February, the 67-year-old was found guilty of criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree, and faced a maximum sentence of 29 years in prison.
Judge James Burke has now handed down a sentence of 23 years, in a hearing at the Manhattan Criminal Court. Speaking ahead of the sentencing, a once-aspiring actress who Weinstein was convicted of raping, said: ‘The day my screams were heard from the witness room was the day my voice came back to its full power. ‘Rape is not just one moment of penetration.
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