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.
Sean “Diddy” Combs Arrest & Harvey Weinstein Retrial Put NDAs Back In Legal Spotlight – Guest Column
deadline.comEditor’s note: Almost a decade after helping to bring down Roger Ailes, former Fox News hosts Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky remain silenced to varying degrees by non-disclosure agreements over what went down at the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet.
As the likes of Harvey Weinstein and Sean “Diddy” Combs face new criminal sex charges in the courts, the Lift Our Voices co-founders advocate for new #MeToo Movement momentum and stopping predators from keeping the survivors of their crimes out of the public eye.
With the recent indictment of Sean “Diddy” Combs, yet another high-profile man has been credibly accused of horrific sexual assault and misconduct, paving the way for another major industry to have its #MeToo moment.
We have been here before. In July 2016, one of us, Gretchen, was the first to file a sexual harassment complaint against then-Fox News CEO and chairman Roger Ailes, kicking off a reckoning about how women had been treated by one of the most powerful men in media.
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