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.
Kate Beckinsale recalls shocking Harvey Weinstein encounter following film premiere
peoplemagazine.co.zaKate Beckinsale has recounted a terrifying encounter she once had with Harvey Weinstein over her decision to wear a pantsuit to a film premiere.
Hours after Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault, the British actress took to her Instagram account to go public with her own experiences with the former movie mogul.
Alongside snaps of both herself and Weinstein at the 2001 launch of the romantic comedy Serendipity, Kate claimed in the accompanying caption that she had initially refused to attend as the event was taking place just weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City.
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