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 sharing prison with John Lennon's killer as he starts 23-year sentence
dailystar.co.ukHarvey Weinstein has been sent to the same maximum security lock-up as John Lennon's murderer Mark David Chapman. The convicted sex offender was sentenced to 23 years behind bars last week when he was found guilty of sexual assault and third-degree rape.
The 68-year-old will be locked up at Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York. The facility has more than 950 inmates locked up, with Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman among them.
Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life for killing Beatles legend John Lennon in 1980. Disgraced movie director Weinstein will stay at Wende for an as-yet unknown amount of time while authorities decide which facility meets his "security, medical, mental health and other needs", says the Department
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