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.
Asia Argento accuses ‘Fast and the Furious’ director Rob Cohen of sexual assault
nme.comFast and the Furious director Rob Cohen has been accused of sexual assault by actress Asia Argento, who Cohen worked with on 2002 film xXx.Argento was also one of the early accusers of disgraced Hollywood director Harvey Weinstein, making claims about his behaviour back in 2017.In an interview with Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera (via Variety) about Cohen, she said: “It’s the first time I’m talking about Cohen.
He abused me, making me drink GHB (psychoactive drug Gamma-hydroxybutyrate), he had a bottle of it. I discovered later, speaking with a friend who opened my eyes about that substance.She added: “At the time, I really didn’t know what it was.
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