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.
Disney & CAA Want Out Of Julia Ormond’s Suit Over Harvey Weinstein 1995 Sexual Assault; “Blame On The Wrong Defendant,” Uberagency Says
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Two months after Julia Ormond sued CAA, Disney and Harvey Weinstein for negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, battery and more over a 1995 sexual assault by the now incarcerated Pulp Fiction EP, the uberagency and the Bob Iger-led corporation say they shouldn’t be a part of the suit and want out. “Accepting the allegations in the Complaint as true, Harvey Weinstein’s alleged misconduct is disturbing and deplorable,” a filing Tuesday by the Walt Disney Company’s New York lawyers Cravath, Swaine & Moore asserts of Ormond’s October 4 complaint. “But the question is whether Plaintiff’s allegations are sufficient to state a claim for negligent supervision against TWDC,” Disney continues in respect to their ownership of the Weinstein’s Miramax from 1993 to 2010. “They are not, with respect to any of the four elements of that cause of action.
Therefore, TWDC respectfully requests that the single claim against it be dismissed” (read Disney’s filing to be dismissed from the Weinstein case here).
The House of Mouse’s request and sentiment today is echoed by the now Artémis controlled CAA in their own filing in New York Supreme Court Tuesday. “It is now widely known that Harvey Weinstein committed multiple sexual assaults and that his deplorable conduct had a devastating impact on many women,” declares a memorandum also filed in New York’s Supreme Court today by CAA’s lawyers. “But prior to Plaintiff’s alleged assault by Weinstein in December 1995, which is the only timeframe relevant to Plaintiff’s claims against Creative Artists Agency, LLC , CAA did not have that knowledge about Weinstein,” the paperwork in support of a motion to dismiss Ormond’s claims against CAA and accusations against her unnamed then agents
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