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.
Angelina Jolie Reveals She Was ‘Hurt’ When Brad Pitt Worked With Harvey Weinstein: ‘We Fought About It’
etcanada.comAmong the many things that ex-spouses Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt didn’t see eye-to-eye about was Pitt working Harvey Weinstein, knowing about Jolie’s allegations that he had tried to sexually assault her when she was a young actress.
In an eye-opening interview with The Guardian, Jolie is asked to recall the first time she felt “sufficiently disrespected in Hollywood” that she told someone to “f**k off” in response. “Erm… well, no surprise, Harvey Weinstein.
I worked with him when I was young,” said Jolie, who was just 21 when she starred in the Weinstein-produced “Playing By Heart”.
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