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 To New Sex Crime Charge In New York
deadline.comFollowing recent emergency heart surgery that left him “near death”, a wheelchair-bound Harvey Weinstein returned to a New York courtroom today to plead not guilty to a new sex crime charge.
The 72-year-old Weinstein is charged in a new indictment with sexually assaulting a woman in a lower Manhattan hotel on one occasion between April 29, 2006, and May 6, 2006, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The former media mogul is charged with one count of Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree, according to Bragg. The new indictment, which remains sealed, accuses Weinstein of forcing oral sex on a woman.
He is also charged in a previous New York State Supreme Court indictment with Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree and Rape in the Third Degree.
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