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.
Rowena Chiu, a former assistant at Miramax, came forward in September of 2019 to detail an attempted sexual assault by her boss Harvey Weinstein back in 1998.
Afterwards she signed a non disclosure agreement. Now, she’s breaking an NDA that she signed with the company to speak out again.
When asked by Variety why she’s actually breaking her NDA when she could get sued for it, she responded, “He’s got 111 women speaking out against him, he’s already done one criminal trial in New York and he’s got another upcoming criminal trial in L.A., so to be honest, he’s not going to waste his time or money suing me.
I don’t have any money, so what’s the point of suing me? But legally, he’s within his rights to sue me and bring a case against me that
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