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 is 'feeling well' after coronavirus diagnosis, struggling with life in prison
foxnews.comHarvey Weinstein is physically feeling fine after contracting COVID-19 but it's life behind bars he's worried about. Weeks into his 23-year prison sentence, a source told Fox News that Weinstein has "no symptoms" but "has been in isolation" since he moved from New York City's Rikers Island jail to Wende Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison near Buffalo, N.Y., earlier this month.
Now, his spokesperson tells Fox News that despite the diagnosis, the former movie producer is "feeling well." Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse for jury deliberations in his rape trial in February. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) "It's prison he is having a hard time adjusting to," Juda S.
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