This file photo taken on May 23, 2017 shows U.S. film producer Harvey Weinstein posing during a photocall as he arrives to attend the De Grisogono Party on the sidelines of the 70th Cannes Film Festival, at the Cap-Eden-Roc hotel in Antibes, near Cannes, southeastern France.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Hollywood movie maker Harvey Weinstein has been expelled Saturday from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in response to his alleged sexual advancements on female co-workers.

The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences held a special emergency meeting Saturday morning and voted to expel Weinstein, the Weinstein Company (TWC)'s co-founder, immediately.

"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," said AMPAS in a statement after the meeting.

Hollywood was shell-shocked in recent days by a sex scandal exposure on the Hollywood kingmaker.