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, who was found guilty of two counts of third degree rape and criminal sexual assault earlier this year, reportedly suffered from acute genital infection Fournier's gangrene in the 1990s.
Diabetics and middle-aged men are particularly prone to the grisly condition.According to a three-part series in Air Mail, from Graydon Carter's Digital News Weekly, the 68-year-old had to be transported out of St Barts to get medical help for his problems.Symptoms of Fournier's gangrene include pain and swelling around the genitals, an unpleasant odour from the affected skin and a crackling sound heard when touching the affected area.Harvey's genitals were first brought into conversation at his rape trial earlier this year.One of his.
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