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.
Disney, CAA & Miramax Fail To Get Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Suit From Julia Ormond Dismissed
deadline.comJulia Ormond’s lawsuit against Disney, CAA and Miramax over an alleged 1995 sexual assault by the now-incarcerated Harvey Weinstein will be going forward. “Upon the foregoing documents, and oral argument having been held before the court on May 20, 2024, it is ordered that the motions of defendants The Walt Disney Company, Creative Artists Agency, LLC, and Miramax Film NY, LLC are denied,” New York State Judge Suzanne Adams ruled today. Read the order rejecting Disney, CAA and Miramax’s move to have Julia Ormand’s suit over an alleged 1995 sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein here.
Not trial date has yet been set for the negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, battery and more action by the Emmy winning Ormond.
However, unless the two studios and the mega-agency make a settlement deal ASAP, trial is where this is headed. While a black-eye to the defendants, such dismissal attempts are pretty much a long shot in most cases to begin with.
How this all plays out in the next stages, especially in the context of discovery, will put the true merits of the matter under the microscope.
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