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 Katherine Kendall to give evidence in Depp defamation case
breakingnews.ieAn actor is set to tell the High Court in London that she was “misquoted” in an article which labelled Johnny Depp (57) a wife beater.
Mr Depp is suing The Sun’s publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN) and its executive editor Dan Wootton over an article, published on April 27th, 2018 which alleged he was violent towards his ex-wife Amber Heard (34).
Katherine Kendall (50) an campaigner for the #MeToo movement which sprang out of widespread revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct, is expected to give evidence in the trial today over a video link from the US.
Ms Kendall has publicly accused Mr Weinstein of harassing her in the 1990s. The American movie producer was convicted of rape and other sexual offences in March, receiving
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