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.
Oasis legend Noel Gallagher revealed that the rapist Harvey Weinstein once spent hours leering at his wife, Sara Macdonald.Noel, 54, made the claim that the predator, Harvey, had disturbingly ogled his wife, Sara, 50, a few years ago during a trip to Paris whilst the married pair had dined at the Parisian restaurant L'Avenue.Speaking on his friend's Matt Morgan's Funny How podcast, he said: "We happened to go for lunch.
Harvey Weinstein happened to be sat at quite a big table with loads of similar-looking men."Noel added: "He stared at her throughout this meal."Noel had raised that the incident occurred before Harvey Weinstein's criminal activity had been exposed and brought to public knowledge.The Wonderwall singer confessed that at the time, he thought the former film producer had wanted to cast his wife, Sara, in a movie years before had been convicted as a sex offender.Opening up to his pal Matt, the 'We're On Our Way' now singer revealed he recently had a sinister dream with Harvey and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein whilst they were in a bar..A disturbed Noel said he thought: "Oh no, I've got to wake up, this is too weird."Harvey, 69, was released from his film company in October 2017 after sexual abuse allegations against him were made public.
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