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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.

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partnered with construction magnate Ronald Tutor and the Qatar Investment authority to buy Miramax from Disney for $660 million.

He served as chairman of company, mostly signing licensing deals for the 700-film library of Oscar-winning titles without producing much new content.

The one-time indie giant had fallen on hard times after the 2005 exit of founding partners Bob and Harvey Weinstein, who attempted to buy back the company.

Instead, Barrack sold Miramax in 2016 to the Qatar-based beIN Media Group for an undisclosed amount. Barrack, who founded Colony Capital in 1990, continued to explore Hollywood ventures in the last decade — and even saved Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch from foreclosure in 2008. (After several stints on and off.

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