Biography

On 11 March 2020, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison after being convicted on charges of third-degree criminal sexual acts and first-degree rape. Weinstein is serving his sentence at the maximum-security Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo (NY), where he is known as inmate No. 20B0584.

He was fired from The Weinstein Company in October 2017 following several allegations of sexual misconduct that broke out in "The New York Times" early that same month.

On 14 October 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expelled him from its ranks. On that day, its 54-member Board of Governors held an emergency meeting at the organization's Beverly Hills headquarters and voted to strip away his lifetime membership. Following the meeting, the Academy issued a statement saying the board had voted "to immediately expel him from the Academy. We do so not simply to separate ourselves from someone who does not merit the respect of his colleagues but also to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over.".

Lysette Anthony has publicly alleged that he twice raped her in the 1980s. In December 2019, she gave an extended interview to Channel 4 News (1982) to talk about it.

On 16 October 2017, the national board of directors of the Producers Guild of America voted unanimously to expel him. The vote came two days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also voted to expel him.

We have 65 BAFTAs, 75 Oscars, $2 billion in assets and hundreds of millions in profits. And still Michael Eisner won't renew my contract.

All sophisticated investors understand that theatrical release [prints and advertising costs] have to be written off in the quarter you spend it and you realize revenue from home video and television in the next quarter.

Most of the executives who left Disney; Meg Whitman, Steve Burke, Joe Roth, Jeffrey Katzenberg; have all gone on to create wealth for themselves. Hopefully, [brother Bob Weinstein] and I will follow in that tradition.

A man can dream is all I can say.

Having kids has made me much more mature. The anger is gone. There's a sweetness there.