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.
Johnny Depp libel trial: Actress and MeToo campaigner Katherine Kendall to give evidence saying she was 'misquoted' in Sun article
msn.comA #MeToo activist who says she was targeted by disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is due to give evidence today in the Johnny Depp libel trial.Actress Katherine Kendall says she was harassed and chased around her apartment by Weinstein in 1993, but did not speak out for 25 years for fear of being “blackballed” in Hollywood.She is due to give evidence at the High Court in London this afternoon, in the latest stage of the Depp libel fight against The Sun for branding him a ‘wife beater’.Ms Kendall, who is most famous for appearing in the 1996 film Swingers, was quoted in the 2018 article by The Sun’s executive editor Dan Wootton at the centre of the case, and sent a furious complaint to the newspaper afterwards.“I never meant to be in an.
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