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, the singer-songwriter, said on The Zach Sang Show today that she discouraged the mother of Maddie Ziegler from allowing her daughter to take a plane on which Harvey Weinstein was present.
The performer said she always felt the urge to protect Ziegler, who starred in her 2014 music video when she was 11. According to a report from The Independent, Sia told Maddie’s mother that it was a terrible idea for Maddie to take the same plane as Harvey Weinstein.
Sia admitted to herself that there have been many times where her insight and precautionary measures ultimately turned out fruitful.
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