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 To Claim Consensual Affair With Jennifer Siebel Newsom In LA Rape Trial Defense
deadline.comHarvey Weinstein’s lawyer plan to argue that the imprisoned producer did not sexually assault Jennifer Siebel Newsom almost 20 years ago, but had “consensual sex” with California’s now First Partner. “Of all things you’d think a woman that is raped by Harvey Weinstein wouldn’t do, it’s how to deal with a sex scandal,” said defense lawyer Mark Werksman today during a DTLA motions hearing on the damning nearly one dozen charges his client is facing. “The fact that she comes to Mr.
Weinstein for that advice indicates the friendship and companionship of Jane Doe 4 and Mr. Weinstein. The defense will be that they had an affair, that they had consensual sex.” As a suited Weinstein looked on and ongoing jury selection was paused in the high-profile case, lawyers for the defense and the LA County District Attorney’s office were at logger ends over the inclusion of 2007 correspondence between Newsom and Weinstein over revelations of an affair that Gavin Newsom had with an aide while Mayor of San Francisco.
The email from the Jennifer Siebel came about two years after Weinstein allegedly assaulted the actress/filmmaker in an LA area hotel room and soon after the actress/filmmaker had started dating Mayor now Governor Newsom.
The couple would marry in 2008 with Newsom becoming the Golden State’s lieutenant governor from 2011 to 2019 and then California’s 40th governor in 2019.
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