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.
Irate Harvey Weinstein Attorney Still Says Evidence Presented Irreconcilable With ‘Normal, Regular Rape Victims’
deadline.comBy Jill Goldsmith Convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein’s irate lawyers said the former mogul was “confused” and that the the judge and jury in his trial had discarded “90%” of the evidence in the case – evidence of ongoing relationships with his accusers. “I think he sits there very confused,” said Donna Rotunno speaking outside the courthouse after Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years on two criminal counts. “We don’t know what happened in those rooms.
What we do know is all of the circumstances that surrounded it and I will never be able to reconcile those circumstances with … normal, regular rape victims.” The jury and judge did not agree. “This is a new day for women,” said victim’s advocate Gloria Allred speaking after Rotunno.
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