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.
Sending Harvey Weinstein to jail like 'killing horror film monster', says whistleblower
mirror.co.ukA year ago movie mogul Harvey Weinstein shuffled into court on a Zimmer frame and was told he would spend the rest of his life in jail Decades of abuse including sexual assault and rape had finally caught up with the man once dubbed the most powerful in Hollywood.
It was a victory for what has become known as #MeToo – a global coming together of women who supported each other’s claims of abuse at the hands of influential men.
One of the first to speak out publicly against Weinstein was British theatre producer Zelda Perkins who worked in his London office in the late 1990s.
Her career at Weinstein’s firm ended after she confronted him for attempting to rape colleague Rowena Chiu in 1998. The pair were pushed into signing non-disclosure
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