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 suffered mild heart attack after 23-year sentencing
dailystar.co.ukHarvey Weinstein suffered a mild heart attack on Wednesday, just hours after a judge sentenced him to 23 years in prison for sexual attacks on two women, his spokesman confirmed.
The disgraced Hollywood film producer was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in New York after experiencing chest pains at Rikers Island jail.
Last week, doctors at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan performed a heart procedure, inserting a stent to alleviate a blockage.
On Wednesday, he appeared in a Manhattan court for his sentencing where Justice James Burke issuing the fallen star 23-years behind bars for two counts of criminal sexual assault along with third-degree rape.
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