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 asked Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos for help keeping his job: report
foxnews.comHarvey Weinstein reached out to billionaires and Hollywood A-listers for help just days after bombshell reports brought his pattern of sexual assault and misconduct to light, according to newly unsealed court documents.
The documents contain emails written by Weinstein to people like Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, Ted Sarandos and Tim Cook. Many are dated Oct.
8, 2017, just days after a pair of bombshell reports detailed the 67-year-old convicted rapist’s pattern of using his power and status to allegedly assault multiple women.
Weinstein has maintained that all sexual encounters were consensual. However, he was convicted of rape and sexual assault by a New York City jury in February.
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