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.
Harvey Weinstein Accused of Raping 4 Women, Including a 17-Year-Old, in New Lawsuit
thewrap.comIn a new lawsuit, Harvey Weinstein was accused of rape by four women, including one who says the disgraced mogul assaulted her in 1994 when she was 17 years old.
In the suit, filed in New York, the four women referred to only as Jane Does 1-4 describe attacks they say occurred between 1984 and 2013 at festivals like Cannes as well as private meetings with Weinstein.
Jane Doe II, identified as woman from Tennessee, said in the suit that when she was “approximately 17 years old” in 1994, she was
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