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.
Weinstein Plaintiffs Seek to Liquidate Bankruptcy Estate
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media WriterTwo women who allege they were sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein have asked a bankruptcy judge to liquidate the Weinstein Co.
estate, following the collapse of a global settlement last week.The women, Dominique Huett and Wedil David, filed the motion in Delaware bankruptcy court.
They are represented by Douglas Wigdor and Kevin Mintzer, who opposed the settlement, partly on the grounds that it improperly immunized Weinstein Co.
insurers and directors and officers from further liability in sexual misconduct suits.They are now seeking to close out the bankruptcy process, which would foreclose the possibility of a revised global settlement and leave each plaintiff to fight her case individually in the.
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