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 tests positive for coronavirus
digitalspy.comHarvey Weinstein has tested positive for coronavirus, according to a prison union boss. The President of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, Michael Powers, confirmed that the disgraced movie producer and convicted rapist is now in isolation after the test results (as first reported by the Niagara Gazette).
Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence at the Wende Correctional Facility just outside Buffalo, New York, having been transferred there days earlier from Rikers Island.
Powers told Reuters that he learned the news on Sunday morning and is now worried about the corrections officers, who he said did not have the correct protective equipment.
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