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 Sentenced: Mira Sorvino, Monica Lewinsky, Ronan Farrow and More React
etonline.comHollywood is reacting to news that Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison after being found guilty of rape in the third degree and of criminal sexual assault in the first degree.Journalist Ronan Farrow, who helped uncover allegations of sexual abuse against Weinstein, was one of the first to speak out on Wednesday. «A lot of news underlines how hard it is to hold wealthy and connected people accountable.
Today's shows the power of people who speak up, from a position of far less power, at great personal risk,» he tweeted. «The Weinstein sentence reminds us of the importance of those sources and of leaders at news organizations who refused to kill the story — including the editors at the who published the first allegations
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