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 Reportedly Tests Positive For Coronavirus In New York State Prison
tvguide.comHarvey Weinstein, the film producer and mogul sentenced to 23 years in New York State prison for felony sex crimes in March, has tested positive for coronavirus in prison.
The Niagara Gazette, near the Wende Correctional Facility where Weinstein was moved from New York City's Rikers Island after conviction, first broke the news.
Weinstein has been moved to isolation following his diagnosis. Officials at the prison said Weinstein is one of two Wende inmates who have tested positive, and it's believed that Weinstein was positive for the virus when he entered the state prison system last week.
Age 68, Weinstein had been demonstrating signs of deteriorating health before and after his trial, being hospitalized for chest pains once during
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