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.
Rose McGowan‘s racketeering lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and his lawyers has been dismissed by a federal judge.
The decision comes after Rose fired her attorneys and missed a court-ordered briefing deadline, per Variety. Click inside to read more… The Charmed actress filed a RICO lawsuit against the disgraced producer back in October 2019 as well as his attorneys David Boies and Lisa Bloom.
She claimed that they had crafted an elaborate scheme to spy on her and stop her from coming forward with allegations against Harvey, which she first made public in 2016, and accused them of a “pattern of racketeering.” Judge Otis D.
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