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 brands Oprah Winfrey ‘fake as they come’ over ‘being pals’ with Harvey Weinstein in scathing Twitter post
thesun.co.ukROSE McGowan has hit out at Oprah Winfrey, branding her as "fake as they come" in a scathing tweet over "being pals" with Harvey Weinstein.
The actress blasted the talk show host as she shared a photo of Winfrey kissing the cheek of disgraced Hollywood producer Weinstein at the 2014 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.
McGowan - an early #MeToo activist who accused Weinstein of rape - wrote how she's happy people are "seeing the ugly truth" about the popular talk show host.
She tweeted: "I am glad more are seeing the ugly truth of @Oprah. "I wish she were real, but she isn’t. From being pals with Weinstein to abandoning & destroying Russell Simmon’s victims, she is about supporting a sick power structure for personal gain, she is as fake as they.
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