Michael Eisner, who headed Disney from 1984 to 2005, does not hide that cooperation with Harvey Weinstein was extremely complicated. “He lied about everything. How do you deal with someone who never tells the truth?” – he said, quoted by “The Independent”. Weinstein has since been convicted of numerous sex crimes.
“He was just a pig. He was rude, but he was an intellectual at heart. He looked like a truck driver and acted like one. He had great taste in independent films. No one at Disney wanted to deal with him except me. He couldn't tell the truth and he didn't honor his contracts,” Eisner noted.
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As “The Independent” reminds, in 1993, Disney took over the Miramax Films studio founded by the Weinstein brothers. Eisner admitted that the decision to purchase was dictated by the attractive price of $70 million. In hindsight, however, he would not have taken this step if he had known what problems he would have to face.
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Weinstein, 73, is currently serving a 16-year sentence for rape and sexual assault, for which he was convicted in 2022. In 2020, a New York court found him guilty of similar crimes, but that conviction was overturned. Ultimately, after a retrial, Weinstein was found guilty of one of the charges but acquitted of the other.
