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.
Sia stepped in after Harvey Weinstein invited Maddie Ziegler on his plane
peoplemagazine.co.zaSia “stepped in” when disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein invited child star Maddie Ziegler to fly with him on his plane.While Weinstein is now serving a 23-year prison sentence after being convicted of sexual assault and rape in the third degree, he is said to have extended the invitation to Ziegler prior to being outed as a molester.
Sia became very close to Ziegler, now 17, after the dancer starred in her Chandelier video back in 2014, and explained on the Zach Sang Show that she developed an almost maternal instinct to protect her once they worked together.
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