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’s brother says he belongs in hell and likens him to OJ Simpson
mirror.co.ukHarvey Weinstein’s brother had said his sibling belongs in hell before comparing him to OJ Simpson. In emails, written to the rapist, 67, as he was in rehab for sex addiction, Bob Weinstein blasted: “F*** u Harvey Weinstein.
I pray there is a real hell. That’s where u belong." The details emerged in court papers that were unsealed ahead of his scheduled sentencing tomorrow in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The documents revealed how Bob, who found Miramax Films with his sibling, wrote: “I suppose being you, is its own hell if u could feel it, but no chance.
OJ didn’t kill Nicole Simpson and u had consensual sex with all those poor victimised women.” The emails were sent on November 2, 2017.
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