Harvey Weinstein

American film producer and sex offender (born 1952)

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74
Born 1952
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Updated 2026-06-12

A film producer whose company made Pulp Fiction and Shakespeare in Love, Weinstein became the central figure in a worldwide reckoning when more than 80 women accused him of sexual abuse—igniting the #MeToo movement and making his name synonymous with institutional silence around predation.

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Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob co-founded Miramax in 1979, building it into an independent film powerhouse behind Sex, Lies, and Videotape, The Crying Game, Pulp Fiction, and Shakespeare in Love, the last of which earned Weinstein an Academy Award. He also won seven Tony Awards as a theatrical producer. After leaving Miramax, the brothers founded the Weinstein Company in 2005, where Harvey served as co-chairman until October 2017, when decades of sexual abuse allegations—dating to the late 1970s—surfaced publicly. Dismissed from his company and expelled from the Academy, Weinstein faced…

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