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.
Rose McGowan attacks Ben Affleck for not speaking up about Harvey Weinstein abuses
peoplemagazine.co.zaActress and activist Rose McGowan has turned on Ben Affleck for not speaking up about disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s abuses.
The Hollywood heavyweight, who made a string of films with Affleck, was sentenced to serve 23 years behind bars on Wednesday (11Mar20) following his conviction on rape and sexual assault charges, and it has emerged the Argo star was on Harvey’s “red flag list” of people who the producer feared could expose him as an alleged serial predator.
Affleck has yet to comment, but outspoken McGowan has targeted the Oscar winner for not supporting her over claims Weinstein raped her at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.
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