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.
Matt Lauer Says Ronan Farrow "Betrayed the Truth" in Scathing Op-Ed
eonline.comThere is clearly no love lost between Matt Lauerand Ronan Farrow. The disgraced Today Show host makes it clear that he disagrees with Farrow's reporting in the best-selling book Catch and Kill.
Specifically, Lauer writes in an op-ed for Mediaite that he's "disappointed but not surprised" in the perceived lack of scrutiny of Farrow's book.
For those who haven't read Catch and Kill, Farrow writes about how he uncovered Harvey Weinstein's alleged numerous crimes and touches on Brooke Nevils allegations that led to Matt Lauer being fired from NBC News for "inappropriate sexual behavior" in Nov.
2017. Lauer has stated time and time again that he had "a consensual, yet inappropriate relationship" with Nevils, and unequivocally denies any.
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