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.
HUNTER: Weinstein's lush life now a made-for-TV movie
torontosun.comWhen Hollywood’s glitterati gathered during awards season, the name Harvey Weinstein was always on everyone’s lips.His army of acolytes rushed to demonstrate their obsequiousness.These sycophants were simply in awe and fear.That shoutout at the Oscars from someone like Meryl Streep would inevitably be accompanied by a wink, a knowing chuckle.The disgraced portly producer no doubt hoped that this time, his behaviour would again be put down to a “Harvey-will-be-Harvey” sentiment.
Sentence: A wink and a nudge.It was not.The 67-year-old one-time uber-producer — and convicted rapist — was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Wednesday in a New York City courtroom.And his tour of the American judicial system isn’t over: He still faces a slew of sex
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