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 watches TV in first images from hospital as lawyer says convicted rapist is ‘going stir crazy’
metro.co.ukPhotos purporting to be of Harvey Weinstein watching TV and rubbing his balding head have emerged from Bellevue hospital following his recent rape conviction.
Weinstein is currently under guard in his Bellevue hospital room, after being admitted for suffering chest pains instead of being taken to Rikers Island jail ahead of his 11 March sentencing.
Last week he was found guilty on two out of five counts of a criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree, and could face up to 29 years in prison when he is sentenced this month.
However, following the conviction, Weinstein was handcuffed and led out of the courtroom while the judge said he will request that Weinstein be held in the infirmary after his lawyers said he
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