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.
Ronan Farrow’s reporting has brought down such Hollywood heavyweights as Harvey Weinstein and Les Moonves, and now the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist has set his sights on Britney Spears’ controversial conservatorship.
In a piece for The New Yorker that he co-wrote with Jia Tolentino, Farrow delves deep into the circumstances behind the conservatorship and presents numerous shocking revelations.
According to Farrow, on June 22 — the day before Spears’ bombshell-dropping court testimony — she called 911 to report that she was the victim of conservatorship abuse; a County Sheriff’s department spokesperson, however, told ET that Spears visited a police station and asked questions regarding a civil manner, and ultimately asked
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