Harvey Weinstein

Disgraced Hollywood producer (born 1952), former co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Company, convicted of rape and sexual assault in 2020. Connected to Epstein through overlapping New York and Hollywood social circles. Both men used similar tactics of leveraging power and access to exploit women. Ghislaine Maxwell attended some of the same events. Weinstein's 2017 downfall helped catalyze the #MeToo movement, which subsequently intensified scrutiny of Epstein. The parallel cases illustrated patterns of abuse enabled by wealth and influence.