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 to 23 years in prison
nme.comHe will also be formally registered as a sex offender Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to serve 23 years in a New York state prison.
The former film producer was found guilty on February 24, and charged today (March 11) for counts of a Criminal Sexual Act in the first degree and third-degree rape.
Weinstein’s New York trial began on January 6. His attorney Donna Rotunno decried the sentencing, calling it “too harsh”. “That number did not speak to the testimony that we heard,” Rotunno said. “That number did not speak to evidence, nor did it speak to justice.
We were looking for fairness and we didn’t get it.” The lead prosecutor on the case, Joan Illuzzi, fought for Weinstein to serve “the maximum or near the maximum” sentence in jail,
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