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 experiences chest pains following 23 year prison sentence; Moved to hospital
pinkvilla.comHarvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years behind bars on March 11. However, the disgraced producer did not spend much time in the prison before he was rushed to the hospital.
He was sentenced at the Manhattan courthouse and was later taken to Rikers Island, home to New York City's main jail complex.
According to a report by Variety, the 67-year-old’s spokesperson stated that Harvey experienced chest pains after he was moved to prison.
The staff at Rikers then decided to send him to the hospital. On Tuesday, Harvey was sentenced to 23 years in New York State prison and will be formally registered as a sex offender.
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