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 was on suicide watch after being sentenced to 23 years behind bars
mirror.co.ukHarvey Weinstein was on suicide watch as he faces dying behind bars after being sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.
The once-powerful movie producer was sentenced to 20 years for forcibly performing oral sex on production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006.
He was given three years for third-degree rape for his attack on Jessica Mann in 2013. Judge James Burke ordered Weinstein to serve the sentences consecutively and sentenced him to five years of post-release supervision for each charge.
Weinstein, 67, was acquitted of two more serious charges of predatory sexual assault, which could have come with a life sentence when he was found guilty last month.
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