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 Former Assistant Rowena Chiu Breaks NDA for Tell-All Interview
eonline.comRowena Chiu is no longer afraid of Harvey Weinstein and his minions. His former assistant is once again breaking her ironclad non-disclosure agreement to discuss the disgraced producer's alleged sexual harassment.
From her home in Northern California she told Variety that she doesn't care about breaking the NDA as Weinstein has "bigger problems," namely his current incarceration in New York.
Nonetheless, the stay-at-home mom said that she knows there is a "risk" she can be sued every time speaks about the day that Weinstein allegedly pushed her onto a bed and ripped off her tights.
That's why she is now working towards changing the legislation regarding NDAs in the U.K., where she lived and eventually worked for Miramax.
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