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.
Ben Affleck was placed on Harvey Weinstein’s ‘Red Flag List’ for THIS reason; Find Out
pinkvilla.comBefore media dragged Harvey Weinstein into the spotlight by reporting all the sexual misconduct allegations levelled against him, kick-starting the #meToo movement, the disgraced Hollywood producer kept a list of people he was concerned could expose him.
Harvey was concerned that these people could be talking to journalists about his sexual conduct with women. Ben Affleck was one of the people from the entertainment industry who featured on the document known as the red flag list, Variety reported.
The list, which was a part of a 1000-page document that was unsealed criminal courthouse ahead of Harvey’s sentencing on March 11, was first brought up during his seven-week trial.
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