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.
'F--- U HARVEY': Bob Weinstein says brother 'belongs' in a 'real hell'
torontosun.comHarvey Weinstein’s brother has damned his former production partner to hell, revealing he doesn’t believe the fallen movie mogul’s sex assault denials.Bob Weinstein, who headed both Miramax and The Weinstein Company with his brother, fired off an email blast to his older sibling in November 2017, shortly after Harvey was exposed as an alleged serial predator in two New York publications.Reports suggest the older Weinstein, who was recently convicted of rape in the third degree and a criminal sexual act in the first degree, was seeking treatment for sex addiction in rehab at the time.The blistering email went public on Tuesday, a day before Harvey is scheduled to be sentenced.In it, Bob Weinstein rages, “F— u Harvey Weinstein.
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