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 Trial Begins With Heavy Burden on Accusers: ‘Everything Is at Stake for Them’
thewrap.comwatershed #MeToo movement and two-and-a-half years since Harvey Weinstein was convicted of criminal sexual assault by a New York jury, the disgraced movie mogul is back in court, this time in Los Angeles, where a jury is expected to hear from a far more broad spectrum of accusers – and possibly Weinstein himself.Weinstein is already serving 23 years in a New York prison for criminal first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape, a conviction he has been granted the right to appeal, arguing that juror James Burke was biased against him.
Weinstein has maintained his innocence since the beginning, and has spent more than a year in a Los Angeles jail awaiting trial here.That day arrived Monday as jury selection officially got underway in state court, where Weinstein faces 11 charges of sexual assault from allegations spanning from 2004-2013.
The trial is expected to last approximately eight weeks and Weinstein could face up to 140 years in prison if convicted.Weinstein was extradited to Los Angeles in July 2021 and has been at the Twin Towers correctional facility.
His attorneys sought to delay the trial in August, arguing that pre-publicity for “She Said,” based on the book of the same name by two New York Times reporters who uncovered the allegations against Weinstein, would influence the jury.
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