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 – report
hollywood.comDisgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is reportedly in isolation at the Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York after testing positive for the coronavirus.
A source tells the Press-Republican newspaper the producer is sick in prison, but officials at the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision have yet to confirm the story, instead revealing two inmates at Wende had tested positive for COVID-19. Weinstein celebrated his 68th birthday behind bars on Thursday (March 19, 2020) after he was transported to the maximum-security prison following a spell at New York’s Bellevue Hospital and then the medical unit at Rikers Island prison, New York with heart issues.
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