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 L.A. Rape Trial: Accuser Says She Felt Like She “Wanted To Die” During Alleged 2013 Assault
deadline.comA model-actress, identified as Jane Doe #1, resumed her account of a 2013 encounter with Harvey Weinstein, telling jurors that she “wanted to die” as he sexually assaulted her in her hotel room bathroom. “It was disgusting.
It was humiliating, miserable. I didn’t fight,” Jane Doe # 1 said. “I remember how he was looking in the mirror and he was telling me to look at him.
I wish this never happened to me.” She testified for the second day in the Los Angeles trial of Weinstein, 70. He has pleaded not guilty on eleven sexual assault charges that involve claims of five women between 2004 and 2013.
His attorney claimed in his opening statement that the sexual encounters were consensual and even “transactional,” and that claims were fabricated.
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