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.
Johnny Depp’s Lawyers Reveal That He Wanted To Prove He Wasn’t An ‘Abuser’ Like Weinstein And Others
celebrityinsider.orgPage Six learned today the real reason why Johnny Depp chose to file a libel lawsuit against the British newspaper, The Sun.
Reportedly, David Sherborne, Depp’s attorney, claimed his client wanted to clear his name and show he’s unlike the “rogues’ gallery of abusers” such as Weinstein and others.
As it was previously reported, the 57-year-old actor is now in a legal dispute with The Sun regarding their 2018 headline in which they referred to him as a “wife-beater.” The story, Sherborne claims, described him as a man of a similar nature to people such as Harvey Weinstein.
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