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 has bone marrow cancer, undergoing treatment in prison
nme.comHarvey Weinstein has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone marrow cancer, according to reports.According to ABC News, the disgraced director is being treated for chronic myeloid leukemia in a New York prison, where he is currently serving a 16 year sentence following a 2022 California rape conviction.Weinstein’s authorised legal healthcare representative in New York, Craig Rothfeld, declined to comment “out of respect for Mr Weinstein’s privacy”.Weinstein’s diagnosis comes after a year of extensive health issues.
Last month, he was taken to intensive care recovering from emergency heart surgery and was recently said to be a “train-wreck health-wise” having been admitted to the same hospital for 10 days earlier this year.
He was admitted again in July after testing positive for COVID-19 and contracting pneumonia in both of his lungs.He was found guilty on February 24, 2020 of first-degree and third-degree rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison.
In April, the New York Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for rape, deeming that the judge at the trial gave improper rulings.
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