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 gets hit with four new sexual assault lawsuits including underage rape claims
pinkvilla.comHarvey Weinstein, who is currently serving a 23-year prison term for rape, has been hit with four more sexual assault lawsuits, and one of them accuses him of raping a 17-year-old.
In the past few years, the film mogul has been accused by scores of women of a range of sexual crimes including harassment, rape and assault.
According to the latest lawsuit, back in 1994, Harvey lured a 17-year-old to a hotel room and raped her. The document also claims that after assaulting her, Harvey took away her driver's license and threatened to harm her family if she spoke out about the incident, Daily Mail reported.
The accuser states that Harvey “falsely imprisoned, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, and raped her.” Just like many other women have
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