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 One Year Later: A Controversial Payout, Survivors Looking for Closure and How It Changed #MeToo
variety.comElizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentShortly after she graduated from college, Dominique Huett ran into one of the most powerful movie moguls in the entertainment industry.
In her early 20s at the time, the aspiring actress met Harvey Weinstein at Cipriani in New York City. The upscale hotspot was a favorite of Weinstein’s where, we now know, he’d assault numerous women over the course of many years.Huett was ecstatic about the chance run-in, since she wanted to become an actress.
Unbeknownst to her, that night at Cipriani was the beginning of a “grooming relationship,” she says, and Weinstein would repeatedly remind her of the power that he wielded — and abused — for years to come.Throughout her 20s, Weinstein promised to help Huett.
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