Harvey Weinstein stripped of CBE following rape conviction

Disgraced Hollywood movie producer has lost his honour after being convicted of rape and sexual assault earlier this year.

Harvey Weinstein has been stripped of his CBE following his conviction for rape and sexual assault earlier this year.

The former movie mogul, 68, was granted an honorary CBE, for his contribution to the British film industry, in 2004.

He is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York after being convicted of rape in February.

Harvey Weinstein has been stripped of his CBE following rape conviction.

A notice in The Gazette, the UK’s official public record, said: “The Queen has directed that the appointment of Harvey Weinstein to be an Honorary Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated January 19 2004, shall be cancelled and annulled and that his name shall be erased from the Register of the said Order.”

With credits such as Pulp Fiction, The English Patient, Good Will Hunting, Gangs Of New York and Shakespeare In Love to his name, Weinstein was once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood.

He was the man Meryl Streep jokingly called “God” at the 2012 Golden Globes, with his films notching up more than 300 Oscar nominations.

Honours can been removed on the advice of the forfeiture committee and with the approval of the Queen.

The committee considers whether the holder of an honour has brought the system into disrepute.

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