Harvey Weinstein born March 19 1952 is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender He and his brother Bob Weinstein cofounded the entertainment company Miramax which produced 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 After leaving Miramax Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company a minimajor film studio He was cochairman alongside Bob from 2005 to 2017 Description above from the Wikipedia article Harvey Weinstein licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia