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 Should Receive Harsh Sentence For “Total Lack Of Remorse,” Manhattan D.A. Tells Rape Trial Judge
deadline.comBy Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic Five days before sex offender Harvey Weinstein is due to be sentenced in a New York City courtroom, the prosecutors made it very clear today that they want the judge to throw the Oscar winning producer in jail and toss away the key.
Listing off a multi-page recount of rapes and other sexual assaults that the February 24 convicted Weinstein has been accused of, Assistant D.A.
Joan Illuzzi-Orbon vehemently condemned the man a jury found guilty of felony sex crime and rape charges. Set to stand before Judge James Burke in lower Manhattan’s Criminal Courts building on March 11, the currently Rikers Island incarcerated Weinstein is looking at a sentence of five to 29 years.
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