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.
US comedian and TV producer Rosie O’Donnell has told how her family was knocked back from a party held by neighbour Sean 'Diddy' Combs because they wore sweatpants – and says she can’t understand why the rapper doesn’t think of himself as a 'rapist'.In a nearly 10-minute-long TikTok video, the TV personality shared her thoughts on Diddy after he was indicted on sex trafficking, racketeering, and kidnapping charges, comparing the rapper to convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein.O'Donnell said Diddy was her former neighbour and recalled their first and only alleged encounter after which he apologised by hiring out a cinema for her.O’Donnell, 62, said: “Although I only met him once he did invite me to his New Year's Eve party, which I believe everybody was wearing white, but we didn't know.“We had on, like, sweatpants, me and my family and my kids," she said, before revealing that she and her family weren't allowed into the party."They didn't let us in," she added. "The doormen were like, looking at us.
I'm like, 'No, no. He invited me yesterday. I live right there. My daughter saw him in the street and we talked' ... No, we couldn't come in."The comedian said that Diddy called her the next day to say that he was sorry about the misunderstanding."He called, and he felt so bad that he rented out the Regal Cinema for me and my family to see any movie we want, the entire day, in any theatre, whenever we wanted, which was so unbelievably over the top and extraordinary," O'Donnell said. "I never spoke to him before or after that."O’Donnell says she was shocked when she heard the news of his arrest and the allegations against him."I'm just kind of in shock," she continued in the TikTok video. "I know that there's perhaps a
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