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 says she used the ‘tactics’ of predators on the media
breakingnews.ieRose McGowan has said that she used the “tactics” of predators to make the media pay attention to her allegations of sexual misconduct.
The actress and Me Too campaigner, 46, was one of the most high-profile figures to make claims about disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.
She told the Grounded With Louis Theroux podcast that she had looked at how predators groomed their victims and used those techniques on the media.
Explaining how she made the media pay attention, she said: “Honestly, it was really weird, but I started looking at how predators groomed kids and women and whoever they abused, and I used their tactics on the media. “I started following journalists all over the world … I started disseminating my tweets and my information to
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