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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.

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Harvey Weinstein L.A. Rape Trial: “Bulk Of Case” Could Be Finished By Thanksgiving Week, Defense Attorney Says

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Harvey Weinstein’s trial on rape allegations entered its second week with some discussion of how quickly the proceedings are moving.

Although the prosecution still has a number of witnesses to call, Weinstein’s attorney Mark Werksman told the judge that “we could very well have the bulk of the case by Thanksgiving week” finished with just a couple more days left of testimony.

That would be a quicker timeline than has been estimated. The proceedings on Monday were dominated by the testimony of Kelly Sipherd, who claimed that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in a hotel room during the Toronto Film Festival in 1991 and later sought sex and masturbated in front of her in a hotel bathroom in 2008.

Sipherd is among a series of “prior bad acts” witnesses who are testifying in the trial. Their claims are not the basis for the charges against Weinstein, but are being allowed to testify as the prosecution tries to establish a pattern of his behavior.

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