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.
Mira Sorvino and others react as Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years
breakingnews.ieOne of the actresses who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment has said she “cried tears of amazement” when he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
The Hollywood mogul, who has been accused of violating scores of women, was convicted last month for assaulting a production assistant at his apartment in 2006, and third-degree rape of another woman in 2013.
Weinstein was sentenced by Judge James Burke at the Manhattan Supreme Court in New York on Wednesday. Mira Sorvino, who previously made allegations against Weinstein, tweeted: “23 years.
Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for his crimes of rape and sexual assault. “I literally cried tears of amazement, gratitude that the justice system has worked on behalf of
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