Harvey Weinstein is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. Harvey Weinstein was arrested and charged with rape in New York in May 2018 and was found guilty of two of five felonies in February 2020.
Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison and began serving his sentence at Wende Correctional Facility
Does Harvey Weinstein still get royalties?
Harvey Weinstein still owns more than 20% of The Weinstein Company. Harvey Weinstein may still be getting paid when you watch Weinstein Company movies.
No one has direct knowledge of Weinstein’s global network of companies, but everyone agrees that he still makes money from at least some of his films, if not all of them.
There are two basic ways he can profit: 1. as a shareholder in The Weinstein Co., and 2. as an individual contingent profit participant in films that will forever bear his name.
“Short of legal intervention, he will probably continue to get revenue from one or both of those things going forward,” Kaufman said.