Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Actor Julia Ormond sues Harvey Weinstein and Disney over sexual assault
nme.comHarvey Weinstein, claiming he sexually assaulted her in 1995. The producer has denied the allegation.The Sabrina star is also seeking damages from Disney, Miramax and her former talent agency, who she says failed to protect her from the abuse.Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape.
More than 80 people have made rape and misconduct claims against the producer, dating back as far as the late 1970s.Ormond — who is best known for her roles in 90s films Fight Knight and Smilla’s Sense of Snow — alleges that her career never recovered after the attack by Weinstein.The lawsuit claims that Weinstein returned from a business dinner to an apartment provided by the production company, where he “stripped naked and forced her to perform oral sex on him”.“That sexual assault on Ormond could have been prevented if Miramax or Disney had properly supervised Weinstein and not retained him while knowing that he was a danger to the women he encountered at work,” states the lawsuit (via the BBC), which was filed on Wednesday (October 4).Weinstein’s attorney Imran Ansari told the Associated Press that his client “categorically denies the allegations made against him by Julia Ormond and he is prepared to vehemently defend himself”.Ormond is also suing the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), her former talent agency, which she claims failed to warn her about Weinstein’s abusive behaviour.
She also “suggested that if she reported Weinstein to the authorities, she would not be believed, and he would seriously damage her career”.The lawsuit adds: “Still worse, not long after Weinstein’s assault on Ormond and her reporting of the assault to them, CAA lost interest in representing her, and her career suffered dramatically.“The.
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