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 shares vile 'I want p***y' remark Harvey Weinstein screamed at her
dailystar.co.ukKate Beckinsale has told how Harvey Weinstein screamed at her “if I want p***y on the red carpet that’s what I get” when she wore a white suit to a movie premiere.
The 46-year-old actress said she was “punished for years” for her outfit choice at the Serendipity premiere in New York in 2001.
Sharing photos from the premiere on Instagram, told how the movie’s cast felt it was "insensitive and disrespectful" to go ahead with the red carpet event just a few weeks after 9/11.
The disgraced movie mogul, who was jailed for 23 years for sex crimes on Wednesday, “insisted” it still went ahead, so she opted to wear a low-key outfit.
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