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.
Lawsuit accuses Harvey Weinstein of raping 4 more women
canoe.comHarvey Weinstein has been accused of raping four more women, including a then 17-year-old, in a new lawsuit. According to The Hollywood Reporter, documents were filed in New York on Thursday, detailing claims from four women who allege the convicted sex offender sexually assaulted them between 1984 and 2013.
One of the women was 17 years old at the time of her alleged attack, and claims Weinstein raped her in 1994, when she visited his hotel room for a meeting about her dream of breaking into the entertainment industry.
When she entered the room, the woman, now 43, claims Weinstein was already naked and told her that she had to “sexually gratify him” if she wanted him to get her a job.
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