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.
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Jeffrey Epstein's former lawyer blames the Queen and claims Prince Andrew made 'terrible mistake'
dailyrecord.co.ukThe former lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein has blamed the late Queen for being behind Prince Andrew settling a civil sexual assault case.
Alan Dershowitz claims Prince Andrew made a "terrible mistake" by settling the case with Virginia Giuffre out of court, instead of giving evidence in a US civil court, as reports the Mirror.The lawyer believes the Duke of York was "pressured by his mother" and would have "won" the case if he'd went to court and was cross-examined.It comes after Giuffre (nee Roberts) claimed Prince Andrew of having sex with her on three occasions, and that sex offender Jeffrey Epstein pressured her into it via Ghislaine Maxwell.
Andrew was sued in 2021 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The civil case accused him of "sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress" which she claimed was “severe and lasting”.Dershowitz has now said he feels "sorry" for the banished royal as he added: "If he had fought that case, I believe he would have won, I believe the case would have been dismissed on a variety of grounds, but he didn't want to sit through a deposition, or people around him didn't want to sit through a deposition, so he settled the case."Often you settle cases, not because you're guilty of what you're charged, but because you don't want to admit other things that you've done.“I feel sorry for Prince Andrew for this reason, assuming everything they say about him is correct, the woman who accused him was over the age of consent.”The lawyer has worked for a range of high profile names includingg OJ Simpson, Julian Assange, Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump.He claims Giuffre “apparently bragged about it to her friends” and “collected millions and millions
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