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.
A bankruptcy court judge Monday confirmed a liquidation plan for the former Weinstein Co., which filed for Chapter 11 three years as disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein imploded in a sea of sexual abuse and harassment accusations.Weinstein the man is currently serving a 23-year sentence for rape and assault at a correctional facility in upstate New York.
The assets of his company were sold to a private equity firm with proceeds going to secured creditors. A group of unsecured trade creditors and Weinstein victims and their attorneys have been arguing over how divide what’s left, basically settlement money offered by insurance companies.After years, earlier this month, a large majority of both agreed to accept the latest proposed settlement
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