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 to share a prison with John Lennon's killer as rapist starts 23 year sentence
mirror.co.ukHarvey Weinstein has been sent to the same maximum security prison that holds John Lennon's killer. The disgraced movie mogul, 68, was sentenced to 23 years behind bars last week after being found guilty of sexual assault and third degree rape.
He will be caged at Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York. Wende houses more than 950 inmates, including Mark David Chapman, who is serving 20 years to life for the murder of Lennon in 1980.
Weinstein will stay at the prison for undetermined period of time while authorities determine which facility meets his "security, medical, mental health and other needs," according to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
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