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, Disney bosses to fight underage rape lawsuit
torontosun.comHarvey Weinstein and Walt Disney Company bosses have pledged to defend themselves vigorously against a new underage rape lawsuit.The disgraced former Miramax film executive was accused of raping four more women, including a then 17-year-old, in a new lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court on Thursday, with Disney cited as a co-defendant in the case.“Mr.
Weinstein intends to defend against the claims filed anonymously against him yesterday,” the producer’s civil cases lawyer Imran H.
Ansari said in a statement to Deadline on Friday, before referring to legal statutes of limitation for reporting rape as a defence for his client. “Some of these claims, including those alleged to have occurred in the 1980s and 1990s, may be barred by the
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