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 Victim Known As ‘Jane Doe 1’ Reveals Her Identity
etcanada.comEvgeniya Chernyshova isn’t hiding anymore. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 43-year-old mother of three reveals herself to be “Jane Doe 1”, the victim at the heart of Harvey Weinstein’s recent conviction.
On Thursday, the disgraced movie producer was sentenced in Los Angeles to 16 years in prison for raping Chernyshova, who had remained anonymous through the legal proceedings. READ MORE: Harvey Weinstein Sentenced To 16 Years In Prison For Los Angeles Rape Conviction The sentencing came after Weinstein was convicted of the crime on Dec.
19, and Chernyshova recalled learning the verdict while in her car with her 16-year-old daughter and 23-year-old son. “I had to ask my daughter if I understood the English correctly,” she said. “She’s like, ‘Why are you crying, mom?
It’s good.’” Chernyshova, who was born in Russia, had testified that Weinstein had raped her in his hotel room in 2013. The trial in Los Angeles involved charges based on the accusations of four women, though Chernyshova’s case was the only one that resulted in a conviction.
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