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 Pleads “Not Guilty” Again To LA Rape & Sex Crimes Charges – Update
deadline.comUPDATE, 9:55 AM: In an unsurprising declaration, Harvey Weinstein entered a plea of “Not Guilty” today in a downtown LA Courtroom on grand jury indictments of rape, battery and other sex crimes.With the exact same plea as he fist entered two months ago after being extradicted from incarceration in upstate New York, the wheelchair bound and masked Pulp Fiction EP was in LA Superior Court this morning personally for the brief hearing.
Today’s plea comes in response to a series of grand jury indictments this summer from LA County District Attorney George Gascón’s office to overcome statute of limitations rulings.Weinstein is now charged with four counts of rape, four counts of forcible oral copulation, one count of sexual penetration by use of
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