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 Transferred From Rikers Island To New York State Prison
deadline.comBy Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic Harvey Weinstein, convicted of rape and sexual assault in a New York courtroom on Feb.
24 and sentenced to 23 years in prison, has been transferred from Rikers Island to a state prison in Fishkill, N.Y., Deadline has confirmed.
A spokesman for Weinstein said the move was requested because the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill, N.Y., about 60 miles north of New York City, has a medical facility to handle Weinstein’s ongoing heart ailments and other health issues.
The former mogul recently underwent a stent procedure. Weinstein’s stay at the notoriously dangerous Rikers was brief: only two days.
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