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.
Alanis Morissette claims legal agreements are stopping musicians outing sexual abusers
peoplemagazine.co.zaAlanis Morissette has claimed women in music aren’t able to speak out about their experiences of sexual abuse due to non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
Sexual harassment and abuse have become a hot topic in Hollywood since scores of women went public with accusations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in 2017 – but the music business is yet to have a similar reckoning.
Discussing the topic in an interview with Britain’s The Sunday Times newspaper, Alanis stated that sexual misconduct of all kinds is arguably more prevalent in the rock and pop industry, though its structures prevent women from coming forward. “Almost every woman in the music industry has been assaulted, harassed, raped.
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