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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.

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More Sex Crime Trials for Cosby, Weinstein in Los Angeles

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Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefThe trial in a civil suit against Bill Cosby got underway in a Santa Monica courthouse last week.

Judy Huth is accusing the disgraced entertainer of sexually assaulting her in the 1970s when she was a teenager.I reached out to one of Huth’s attorneys, Gloria Allred, and she emailed me her response: “Ms.

Huth alleges in her lawsuit that she was the victim of sexual battery by Mr. Cosby when she was 16 years old,” she says. “We are honored to represent Ms.

Huth and to seek justice for her in a California court of law.” Allred further tells me, “Bill Cosby’s lawyers said that my role as an advocate for various women claiming to be victims of his conduct might make me a witness in this case.” Since the defense may, in fact, call her to testify, Allred says, “I will not be speaking at the trial, unless I am called as a witness.” Huth sued Cosby in 2014, but the case was put on hold while the disgraced entertainer was being criminally prosecuted for allegations of drugging and sexually assaulting a Temple University employee, Andrea Constand.

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