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 battled with 'acute genital infection Fournier's gangrene'
mirror.co.ukHarvey Weintein suffered from an acute genital infection known as Fournier's gangrene, it has been reported. Comments about the former movie mogul's 'deformed' genitalia had first been put to public attention during his rape trial earler this year.
Accuser Jessica Mann said she had thought Weinstein could be 'intersex' when she saw his naked body. She sad the abnormality left him scarred and 'without' testes. “The first time I saw him fully naked, I felt, I thought he was deformed and intersex," she told Manhattan's Supreme Court in February. “He has extreme scarring that I didn’t know if maybe he was a burn victim.
He does not have testicles and it appears like he has a vagina," she added. Later in the trial, photos of Weinstein were shown
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