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 is criticizing Oprah Winfrey. McGowan, who has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, shared a 2014 snap of Winfrey kissing the disgraced producer on the cheek at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.
She then called the host “as fake as they come.” RELATED: Oprah Winfrey Launches New Scholarship Program, First 15 Students Chosen In Surprise Reveal Seemingly referencing Winfrey stepping down from a Russell Simmons documentary she was meant to executive produce about his alleged sexual misconduct victims, McGowan posted: The photo of Winfrey kissing Weinstein was taken years before the sexual misconduct scandal surrounding him came to light.
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