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.
Harvey Weinstein’s accusers has been slammed as a “complete sellout”.The fund, set to be distributed between dozens of women, would resolve two lawsuits against the disgraced Hollywood producer.The first one focuses on The Weinstein Company while the second is a separate class-action lawsuit brought by women who say the filmmaker assaulted them.However, lawyers for six of Weinstein’s accusers, including British former assistants Rowena Chiu and Zelda Perkins, said the settlement “fails on so many levels”.Attorneys Douglas Wigdor and Kevin Mintzer are set to challenge the offer.
They said: “The proposed settlement is a complete sellout of the Weinstein survivors and we are surprised that the attorney general could somehow boast about a.
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