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.
Ellen Pompeo responds to backlash over old Harvey Weinstein comments
peoplemagazine.co.zaEllen Pompeo has responded to backlash over the comments she made about the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault allegations back in 2018.
During a Q&A at the Oxford Union, the Grey’s Anatomy actress addressed women who may have found themselves in compromising positions with the disgraced producer, saying, “I think we bear some responsibility, not all, but it takes two to tango for sure. “That’s not to blame the victim, that’s just to say – I did go into a room with Harvey Weinstein, I sat at a table with him, I had a probably two and a half hours with him.
He never said anything inappropriate to me, he never made any sort of physical advance to me.” However, when the clip recently resurfaced online, after the former Miramax boss was sentenced
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