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.
The well-known media mogul Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in jail. The disgraced media head was facing charges of rape of an aspiring actress named Jessica Mann in the year 2013 and sexual abuse of production assistant named Miriam Haley in the year 2006.
The lawyers of Harvey Weinstein have appealed in court that a five-year jail term will also prove to be a life sentence for the disgraced media mogul.
Previously, the media outlets reported how Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of criminal sexual abuse charges. The key testimonials provided during the trial had led to the judgment.
Actress Annabella Sciorra had testified in court against Harvey Weinstein. She reportedly said that Harvey Weinstein had raped her in her
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