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 longtime assistant Rowena Chiu is speaking out about her former boss, disregarding the potential consequences of the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) she was forced to sign back in the 1990s while working for the disgraced movie mogul/convicted rapist.
In a scorched-earth interview with Variety, Chiu admits she’s “breaking my NDA right now,” admitting that Weinstein “could sue me for every single interview I’ve ever done for breaking my NDA, but in practice, he’s probably not going to.
He’s got bigger problems.” Indeed he does; Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year sentence after being found guilty of sexual assault earlier this year, and reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 in March.
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