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.
Rachael Leigh Cook shares her experience with Harvey Weinstein
us.hola.comRachael Leigh Cook reveals she was present in two meetings with Harvey Weinstein , the disgraced former head of Miramax, who is currently serving a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual abuse.
The star of ‘She’s All That’ confessed she thinks she could have been one of the victims involved in Weinstein’s sexual misconduct allegations, if it hadn’t been for her manager who attended both meetings.The 40-year-old actress said in a recent interview that she is completely sure she would have been part of the list of list of eighty-five women who accused the movie mogul of inappropriate behavior, “absolutely, with every fibre of my being I know that,” and also revealed that “he was someone who people spoke about in a different tone, but it was.
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