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 once wrote Jennifer Aniston “should be killed” after wrongly believing she had accused him of groping her.
The convicted rapist suggested the Friends star should be murdered writing the threat to his representative. In one email, from documents unsealed ahead of his sentencing, Weinstein wrote: “Jen Aniston should be killed”.
The actress’s publicist Stephen Huvane has denied the disgraced movie mogul ever assaulted her. “He never got close enough to her to touch her,” Huvane said in a statement. “She has never been alone with him.
We have no idea about the email since it wasn’t sent to us, nor do we have any comment to make on it.” Last year, in an interview with Variety magazine, Aniston opened up about her
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