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.
By Greg Evans, Erik Pedersen Seven women who say they survived sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein are calling on New York Attorney General Letitia James to reject a proposed multimillion-dollar settlement with Harvey Weinstein and his former company, calling the terms “insulting” to all survivors and financially detrimental to accusers who choose not to take part in the agreement. “The settlement is insulting to all of the survivors in that it represents a small fraction of what should be paid by Mr.
Weinstein, his former directors and officers, and large multibillion-dollar insurance companies,” reads the letter signed by seven women. “Under the agreement, a large percentage of the settlement originally intended for victims will instead be
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