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.
Hard Time For Harvey Weinstein: Convicted Producer Right Now Heading To Rikers Island From Hospital
deadline.comBy Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic Less than a week before his sentencing hearing for multiple sex crimes, Harvey Weinstein is in an ambulance right now and heading to New York’s notorious Rikers Island.
Having been isolated in the Big Apple’s Bellevue Hospital with various ailments since a jury found the much-accused producer guilty of two of five felony charges on February 24, the often hobbling Weinstein has been ruled in good enough health to be moved to the prison’s infirmary.
Suffering from a blockage in his heart, Weinstein was subjected to mild surgery on Wednesday by doctors at the renowned hospital.
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