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 facing 6 new sexual assault charges in Los Angeles
foxnews.comHarvey Weinstein was hit with six new counts of forcible sexual assault, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced on Friday.
The new charges stem from alleged incidents involving two women, and adds three felony counts each of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation, the district attorney's office said.
Two of the counts include an alleged incident between Sept. 2004 and Sept. 2005 in which Weinstein allegedly raped a woman at a hotel in Beverly Hills, according to the amended casefile.
The amended criminal complaint also accuses Weinstein -- who is already serving a 23-year sentence in New York for his conviction on third-degree rape and forcible sexual assault of two women -- of allegedly raping another woman on two.
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