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 sentence: What it means for his family and what's next in the California criminal case
foxnews.comHarvey Weinstein's legal troubles are far from over. The disgraced movie mogul was sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York City on Wednesday after he was found guilty of third-degree rape and a criminal sex act -- all of which he claimed resulted from extramarital affairs.
The 67-year-old disgraced producer is the father of five children. "One of the many people Harvey Weinstein harmed were his children, who are innocent victims of his conduct," Los Angeles-based family lawyer Christopher Melcher, who was not involved with the case, told Fox News. "He expressed remorse about having affairs but focused on how that impacted him, not the pain and embarrassment it caused his children." Melcher said it may be difficult for Weinstein's kids.
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