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.
Suspect In Death Of Broadway Vocal Coach Held On Bail; Details Emerge Of Lauren Pazienza’s Trail After Alleged Shoving
deadline.comLauren Pazienza, the woman accused of fatally shoving Broadway vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern, remained in custody as of this morning after a $500,000 cash bail was set at an arraignment hearing in Manhattan yesterday.Pazienza, a 26-year-old former events coordinator from Long Island most recently living in Queens, turned herself in to police yesterday after nearly two weeks of attempting to elude capture, according to an account detailed in court yesterday by an assistant district attorney.
Pazienza has been charged with manslaughter and assault.Arthur Aidala, the suspect’s attorney who arranged for her surrender to police, said during the court hearing that the D.A.
had overcharged his client, telling the judge that “pushing someone who’s on the sidewalk” is not the same as “pushing someone in front of a moving train.”Addressing reporters, Aidala, whose clients have included Harvey Weinstein, Rudolph Giuliani and Roger Ailes said, “Whether it was a push or whether it was a shove or whether it was a kick or whether someone tripped…the evidence is not very solid on that at all,” he said.In an interview today with local NBC affiliate WNBC, Aidala said Pazienza’s legal team is awaiting evidence discovery from the D.A.’s office, and that he expects Pazienza to be released on bail in the coming days.
The bail was set at $500,000 cash or a $1 million bond.Details about the March 10 incident and the aftermath emerged at the hearing yesterday, with the D.A.’s office presenting a general timeline of what it believes transpired.
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