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 Gets 16-Years Behind Bars In LA Rape Trial Sentencing
deadline.comBREAKING: Harvey Weinstein was sentencing today in downtown Los Angeles to 16 years in prison for rape and other sex crimes.
With the already incarcerated former producer in attendance at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center courtroom Thursday, the somewhat delayed ruling by Judge Lisa B.
Lench is in addition to the 23-years that the much-accused Weinstein was sentenced to by a Manhattan judge in March 2020 for other rape and other sex crimes.
Today, Weinstein was given eight years count 1, eight years. For count 2, six years. Count 3, two years, all to run consecutive.
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