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      • In 2005, the Weinstein brothers left Miramax, which by then was owned by The Walt Disney Company, and formed The Weinstein Company. The Weinstein Company won four Acadamy Awards, including best picture, for "The King's Speech" in 2011.
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  2. Priyanka Boghani. Seven months after the first women came forward with allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, a court earlier this month...

  3. Feb 13, 2018 · Explainers. The Weinstein Company’s future, explained. The company has filed for bankruptcy and a lawsuit against it, filed by former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, is ongoing....

  4. May 7, 2008 · Harvey Weinstein (born March 19, 1952, Flushing, Queens, New York, U.S.) is a former film producer who became a powerful figure in Hollywood as the cofounder and cochairman of Miramax Films (1979–2005) and later the Weinstein Company (2005–17).

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    The next month, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against Weinstein and The Weinstein Company, saying in a release that the company “repeatedly broke New York law by failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation and discrimination.” The attorney general’s office said it filed the lawsuit p...

    At the end of April 2018, Weinstein’s legal woes thickened when he was named in a Los Angeles County Superior Court lawsuit filed by actor Ashley Judd. The suit claimed that the studio head had torpedoed her career after she refused to accept his sexual advances by spreading lies about her professionalism. Director Peter Jackson had previously offe...

    In August 2018, a German actor filed a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles, alleging that Weinstein had raped her during the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. According to CNN, she was suing the producer for violation of human trafficking laws, assault, battery, and false imprisonment. In late May 2019, Weinstein’s lawyers announced that they had reached a ...

    Weinstein was in the midst of serving his 23-year sentence at the Mohawk Correctional Facility when the New York State Court of Appeals overturned his 2020 convictionon April 25, 2024. In a 4-3 decision, the court ruled that Weinstein hadn’t received a fair trial in part because the judge allowed women to testify about allegations unrelated to the ...

  5. Feb 26, 2018 · Feb. 26, 2018. LOS ANGELES — Two weeks ago, the embattled Weinstein Company looked like it had finally found a way forward. An investor group had emerged with a plan to buy 90 percent of the...

  6. Jan 27, 2021 · Share full article. As part of a bankruptcy court settlement, dozens of women who had sued Harvey Weinstein and accused him of sexual abuse will be eligible to share in $17 million in...

  7. Jan 25, 2021 · Advertisement. Company Town. Weinstein sex-abuse settlement rejected by federal judge. July 14, 2020. The settlement closes an often rancorous and prolonged chapter in the Weinstein...

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