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 Hospitalized for Emergency Heart Surgery
justjared.comHarvey Weinstein has been hospitalized again. On Sunday night (Sept. 8), the 72-year-old disgraced movie producer was moved from Rikers Island, where has been serving time for a 2020 rape conviction, to Bellevue Hospital in New York before having emergency open heart surgery on Monday morning. Keep reading to find out more…Weinstein was rushed to the hospital from the jail after experiencing chest pains, his reps told ABC News. “Mr.
Weinstein was rushed to Bellevue Hospital last night due to several medical conditions,” his representatives Craig Rothfeld and Juda Engelmayer said in a statement. “We can confirm that Mr.
Weinstein had a procedure and surgery on his heart today however cannot comment any further than that.” They continued, “As we have extensively stated before, Mr.
Weinstein suffers a plethora of significant health issues that need ongoing treatment. We are grateful to the executive team at the New York City Department of Correction and Rikers Island for acting swiftly in taking him to Bellevue Hospital.” Weinstein‘s hospitalization comes just days before he was due in court later this week in New York City, where prosecutors had been presenting evidence to a grand jury as they work to secure a new indictment against Weinstein on sex crimes charges.
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