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’s First Court Appearance Since 2020 Rape Conviction Overturned Set For Next Week
deadline.comLess than a week after Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction was tossed by New York’s highest court, the much-accused Pulp Fiction producer is set to be in front of a judge.
Weinstein will appear in Manhattan Supreme Court on May 1, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said late Friday. The hearing in Judge Curtis Farber’s courtroom is set to start at 2:15 p.m.
ET. In a 4-3 ruling on Thursday, the New York Court of Appeals said Weinstein’s conviction and 23-year sentence in the state is to be overturned.
Writing for the majority, Judge Jenny Rivera said now ex-Justice James Burke “erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes” four years ago when he was overseeing the trial.
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