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.
'YOU STUPID F---ING C---': Kate Beckinsale recalls horrible encounter with Harvey Weinstein
torontosun.comKate Beckinsale has revealed a horrific encounter she had with Harvey Weinstein, when the disgraced producer allegedly launched into a foul-mouthed attack after she wore a pantsuit to the premiere of Serendipity.Hours after the former movie mogul was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault, Kate took to her Instagram account to go public with her own experiences with Weinstein.Sharing snaps of both herself and Weinstein at the 2001 premiere of the romcom, Kate claimed that she had initially refused to attend as the event took place just weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York.
But “Harvey insisted”. After flying into the city, the actress said she received a call from Weinstein asking if she wanted to bring her
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