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.
Kate Beckinsale Recalls Harvey Weinstein’s Vile Rant After 2001 Serendipity Premiere: ‘You Stupid F**king C**T’
perezhilton.comHours after Harvey Weinstein‘s sentencing, Kate Beckinsale came forward with her own experience with the disgraced Hollywood mogul.
As you’re likely aware, the Miramax co-founder was sentenced to 23 years in a New York state prison on Wednesday.
Once his sentence was handed down, many of his accusers and vocal opponents went online to react to the news, including Beckinsale who had never previously spoken out about this incident. Related: Harvey Weinstein Said He Wanted Jennifer Aniston ‘Killed’! Along with two images from the New York Serendipity premiere in 2001 — one of her and one of the now-67-year-old — she began: She continued her Instagram post, detailing the incident of alleged intense verbal abuse: The now-46-year-old continued,
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