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.
Film Academy Member Jeffrey Cooper Gets 8 Years in Prison for Child Molestation
thewrap.comCooper had been arrested in 2018 after he was accused of committing lewd acts with two underage girls on separate occasions, one between 2005 and 2007 and the other between 2012 and 2016.
The three convicted counts stemmed from the abuse that took place in the mid-2000s, while the other five counts were ruled as a mistrial.
The accuser, now 28, recounted during the trial how Cooper had befriended her and shared her interest in music and theater before molesting her in his basement recording studio when she was 12 or 13 in 2006.“Over a decade later, this still haunts me,” she testified. “I should feel empowered but I feel gross.
I really try not to think about it. It really knocks me off my feet.”Cooper has designed theaters and postproduction space for multiple studios and organizations in Hollywood, including a 600-seat theater for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which hosts the Emmys, as well as Lucasfilm and Warner Bros.
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