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 will serve sentence in same prision as John Lennon's killer
dailyrecord.co.ukHarvey Weinstein was jailed last week for 23 years and will serve his sentence alongside John Lennon's killer at Wende Correctional Facility.
The disgraced movie mogul, 68, was put behind bars last week after being found guilty of sexual assault and third degree rape.He will be caged at maximum security prison Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York.Wende houses almost 1000 inmates, including Mark David Chapman , who murdered John Lennon in 1980.
Chapman is serving 20 years to life for shooting the Beatles singer five times in the back outside of the Dakota Hotel. Weinstein will stay at the prison for undetermined period of time while authorities determine which facility meets his "security, medical, mental health and other
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