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 stopped child star Maddie Ziegler from boarding Harvey Weinstein's plane
mirror.co.ukSia has revealed how she prevented child actress Maddie Ziegler from flying with Harvey Weinstein on his private plane. The disgraced 68-year-old film producer, who is now serving 23 years in prison, is said to have invited the youngster to join him on a private jet before reports of his predatory behaviour had surfaced.
Speaking on the Zach Sang Show, the Australian star explained that she had always felt protective over Maddie - who is now 17.
At the time, she begged Maddie's mum not to let the performer go with Weinstein. "I mean, as soon as I met Maddie I felt this extreme desire to protect her, and I think that it was part of my own healing, and I felt this extreme compulsion to protect her," Sia said on the show.
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