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 sentenced to 23 years in prison
peoplemagazine.co.zaHarvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison and five years of probation on charges of sexual assault and rape on Wednesday.
The 67-year-old entered the New York court in a wheelchair to face sentencing after a jury convicted him last month of sexually assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haley and raping former aspiring actress Jessica Mann.
Judge James Burke imposed a lengthy sentence of 20 years for the assault on Haley and three years for a third-degree rape on Mann, to be served consecutively.
He was also sentenced to five years of post-sentence supervision. According to Variety, addressing the court before sentencing, Weinstein expressed “deep remorse” for his actions but also claimed to be “confused” by his conviction,
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