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 claims a spy was paid to steal her book detailing Harvey Weinstein assault
metro.co.ukRose McGowan claimed a spy was hired to steal her memoir in which she detailed the abuse she endured in Hollywood. The 46-year-old former Charmed actress made a guest appearance on Laura Pradelska and Lara Fraser’s podcast At Home with the Lallas and revealed there was a ‘million dollar pay off’ to anyone who retrieved her book, Brave, before publication.
She explained: ‘Harvey Weinstein is in jail… I’m still with dickheads but not on that level, you couldn’t even explain it to people, I mean I had an ex-Mossad spy hired to befriend me to secretly record me ’cause there was a million-dollar pay off if someone could get my book before it was published…. ‘She succeeded in stealing 125 pages… so my rapist was inside thoughts, my head, my
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