The 65-year-old movie producer, one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, will no longer have a say in the Oscars.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has reported its board – which includes stars like Tom Hanks and Whoopi Goldberg – voted on the Weinstein matter and the result was his immediate expulsion.
A statement released read: “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors met today to discuss the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, and has voted well in excess of the required two-thirds majority 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 wilful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behaviour and workplace harassment in our industry is over.”
The statement continued: “What’s at issue here is a deeply troubling problem that has no place in our society. The Board continues to work to establish ethical standards of conduct that all Academy members will be expected to exemplify.”
Weinstein is himself an Oscar winner for 1998’s Shakespeare in Love, which won Best Picture.
His films have received over 300 Academy Awards nominations and won 81 of them. It’s even believed that he’s been thanked more than God in winners’ speeches over the years.
One of the latest accusations of sexual harassment comes from James Bond star Eva Green.
On French radio her mother claimed Weinstein threatened to destroy her Hollywood career.
Green has since said: “I wish to address comments made by my mother in a recent interview regarding Harvey Weinstein. I met him for a business meeting in Paris at which he behaved inappropriately and I had to push him off.
“I got away without it going further, but the experience left me shocked and disgusted.”