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 reveals Harvey Weinstein screamed at her for not dressing sexy on a post-9/11 red carpet
foxnews.comKate Beckinsale shared a shocking story about verbal abuse and sexual harassment she said she endured from the now-convicted rapist and former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Weinstein, who has been accused of violating scores of women, was convicted last month of raping a woman in a New York City hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another woman at his apartment in 2006.
He faced a maximum of 29 years in prison but was given 23. Beckinsale, who previously detailed stories about Weinstein being inappropriate with her, took to Instagram to remark on the disgraced Hollywood big shot’s sentence and share a cautionary tale about the battles women still have to face in show business.
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