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.
Epstein called Weinstein a 'pig' after alleged sex assault on 'favourite girl'
torontosun.comA new report reveals that Jeffrey Epstein used his friendship with Harvey Weinstein to lure young women into his sickening sexual web with the problem of stardom.But according to the Daily Beast, the disgraced Hollywood heavyweight stepped over the line and allegedly sexually assaulted one of Epstein’s favourite girls.One young woman, Chauntae Davies, then 21, even snared a small role in a horror film produced by a Weinstein-affiliated company.Davies told the Daily Beast that she was a massage therapy student living in California when she was lured into Epstein’s debauched world of sex trafficking.After being sexually assaulted by the billionaire predator, she escaped his clutches in 2005.Her lawyer, Brad Edwards, has written a new tell-all
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