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.
Photographer sues Ellen Barkin over Weinstein pic
wonderwall.comEllen Barkin is being sued by a New York City photographer for tweeting a vulgar image of herself during Harvey Weinstein's rape trial.
In the image, the "Animal Kingdom" star flipped off photographer Steven Hirsch while standing outside the Manhattan courtroom where Weinstein was fighting rape and sexual assault accusations, charges he was later convicted and sentenced for.
On Jan. 23, the New York Post published the photo on its website. That same day, Ellen posted the image to her personal Twitter, writing, "Mood." "Barkin did not license the photograph from plaintiff for the website, nor did Barkin have Plaintiff's permission or consent to publish the Photograph on the website," the copyright infringement suit said, according to Page
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