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.
“Horrific Attack”: James Dolan & Harvey Weinstein Hit With Rape & Sex Trafficking Suit
deadline.com“Dolan responded to Ms. Croft’s report of sexual assault in a completely matter-of-fact tone, noting that Weinstein was ‘a troubled person’ that had a lot of ‘serious issues,’ but that his friends were ‘trying to get him to address’ those issues,” says a sexual assault and sex trafficking lawsuit against James Dolan and Harvey Weinstein filed today in federal court. “Dolan intimated that Weinstein was not a ‘safe’ person but did little to console Ms.
Croft or help her to report the assault to the authorities,” the jury trial seeking complaint from former massage therapist Kellye Croft alleges.
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and also naming the Azoff Company as a defendant, the suit additionally claims that Madison Square Garden owner and AMC Networks Non-Exclusive chairman Dolan repeatedly “pressured Ms.
Croft into unwanted sexual intercourse with him” while his JD & the Straight Shot vanity band was on-tour with the Eagles in late 2013 (Read the sexual assault complaint against James Dolan and Harvery Weinstein here).
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