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.
A furious judge rejected a £4.2million settlement for Brit victims of rapist Harvey Weinstein as it meant the movie mogul would not pay a penny.
The offer meant the convicted sex offender’s insurers would have funded the entire deal as well as his own legal costs. Now it has emerged New York State Attorney General Letitia James signed off on the settlement that included terms she supposedly promised wouldn’t be included.
The cash was to be divided among 14 women in the UK, Canada and the US. Eleven women in the UK have accused the father-of-five of 16 attacks, all committed when he visited London for film premieres or awards ceremonies.
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