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.
Meet the other Harvey Weinstein, aka ‘Tuxedo King,’ in ‘Torn From the Headlines’
nypost.comYou’ve heard probably too much about Harvey Weinstein. But wait. On “Torn From the Headlines: New York Post Reports,” a new, six-episode true-crime series on Investigation Discovery, you’ll meet another Harvey Weinstein.
Like the disgraced movie mogul, currently serving a 23-year jail sentence for rape, this Weinstein also made the front page, on Aug.
18, 1993. The headline read: My Days in Hell: Kidnap victim tells The Post how he survived 2 weeks buried alive. Weinstein, the so-called “Tuxedo King” of clothing manufacturers, was kidnapped after eating breakfast at the Mark Twain diner in Queens on Aug.
4, 1993. He was dumped in a hole in a wooded area and the hole was covered with a metal plate. When Weinstein did not show for a meeting
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