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.
Three Women Drop Sex Trafficking Suit Against Harvey Weinstein After Agreement On Victims’ Fund
deadline.comThree woman have dismissed sex trafficking charges against imprisoned mogul Harvey Weinstein following the late January liquidation settlement in Delaware Bankruptcy Court between the former Weinstein Co.
and creditors, including abuse victims of the one-time producer.Plaintiffs Louisette Geiss, Sarah Ann Thomas and Melissa Thompson filed in U.S.
District Court in the Southern District of New York to dismiss the trafficking suit without prejudice but retained the right to reinstate it within 125 days if the Sexual Misconduct Claims Fund agreed upon in the bankruptcy settlement does not pay out.Weinstein Co.
filed for bankruptcy over three years ago as its eponymous founded imploded in an ocean of abuse allegations. He was tried in New York,
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