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.
Sia once stopped Maddie Ziegler from getting on a plane with Harvey Weinstein
metro.co.ukSia, who has just become a grandmother after her adopted son welcomed two kids, continued: ‘So I thought, how’s a good way I can keep her safe is just keep making projects for her, and therefore most of the time we’re working together – and you know I kept her off a plane that Harvey Weinstein tried to get her on. ‘I know there’s times where my insight has really made a difference, like kept her safe … Yeah, that was really disgusting.‘When he invited her, that’s when I called, I told Melissa, I had to.
I just said, “Please don’t, do not do that, do not do that, do not do that”.’It is unclear when this incident occurred.Weinstein, 68, is currently serving a 23 year prison sentence after being found guilty of criminal sexual act in the first.
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