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 sued for sexual assault, battery by woman who claims he coerced her into sex: report
foxnews.comHarvey Weinstein is reportedly being sued for sexual assault and battery by an unnamed woman who claims he used his position of power in Hollywood to coerce her into having sex with him.
TMZ reports that a lawsuit has been filed in Los Angeles in which an anonymous woman is joining the myriad of others who claim that the now-convicted rapist dangled a role in front of her and threatened to end her career if she did not give him what he wanted.
According to the suit, which the outlet reportedly obtained, the woman met with Weinstein at an event in Los Angeles in 2014.
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