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.
Infamous 1983 kidnapping recreated in New York Post series ‘Torn from the Headlines’
nypost.comMonday night’s episode of ID’s “Torn from the Headlines: New York Post Reports” gives viewers an inside look at the infamous case of “Tuxedo King” Harvey Weinstein — kidnapped in August 1983 and held hostage in a sweltering underground tomb for 13 days before being rescued by NYPD detectives. “People are fascinated by being buried alive and bad things happening to rich people, but here was a nice guy whose employees loved him,” says “Torn from the Headlines” executive producer Tim Baney.
Weinstein, 68, was kidnapped from the parking lot of a Queens diner and entombed in a deep, underground pit alongside the West Side Drive near 158th St.
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