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 Moves Closer to Extradition to Los Angeles
hollywoodreporter.comDisgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein appears headed back to California to face charges of sex abuse. Weinstein took part in an Erie County, New York, court proceeding on Monday to hear his fate in ongoing extradition proceedings to send him back to Los Angeles.
Wearing a rust-colored prison sweat shirt and with a walker at his side, Weinstein appeared via video link from a New York State maximum security prison, theWende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, where he is currently serving 23 years in prison on rape and sexual assault charges — a conviction he recently appealed.
As Erie County Judge Kenneth Case entered the courtroom, Weinstein drew forward in his chair to learn his fate in ongoing extradition proceedings involving.
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