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.
Kate Beckinsale claims Harvey Weinstein shouted at and punished her for wearing suit on red carpet
msn.comKate Beckinsale has told of her "huge relief" at Harvey Weinstein's prison sentence after revealing she was "punished" by the former movie mogul.
Weinstein, 67, was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a judge in New York after being convicted of assaulting a production assistant at his apartment in 2006, and third-degree rape of another woman in 2013.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles have started the extradition process to bring the disgraced Hollywood film producer to California.
Beckinsale, 46, posted an image of herself on Instagram at the 2001 movie premiere for Serendipity. © Evan Agostini/ImageDirect Kate Beckinsale seen in the suit at the premiere in 2001 - Evan Agostini/ImageDirect She wrote: "We all refused to go because holding a
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