Harvey Weinstein was born in the city of Flushing in New York and he was raised in the Jewish Family. He is a son of Max Weinstein who was a diamond cutter and of Miriam who worked in a post. He was raised with the younger brother called Bob Weinstein in the housing co-op called Electchester in the city of New York. He finished his schooling at John Bowne High School and afterwards, he attended University of Buffalo.

Harvey Weinstein got married two times and the first one is to an assistant Eve Chillton. They did divorce in the year 2004 and they had three children who are Remy who was Lily before, Emma and the third born was Ruth. In the year 2007, he got married to his second wife, an English Fashion designer and also actress called Georgina Chapman. They have daughter together and she is called India Pearl with a son called Dashiell born in the year 2013.

From his biography, Harvey Weinstein is an active person in the issues like multiple sclerosis, juvenile diabetes and AIDS research. He was serving at Board of Robin Hood Foundation found in New York City and it is a no for profit organization that works to alleviate the poverty. He supports American Democratic Party and he is critical for lack of the controls laws against the gun and the universal health care in USA. He got the press coverage by supporting Hillary Clinton in the presidential campaign of 2008. In the year 2012, he was the host of the election fundraiser of President Obama in the Westport in Connecticut State. Harvey Weinstein supported President Barack Obama and he was critic for Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Launch. He had expressed the favorable opinions towards Chris Christie who is a New Jersey Governor.

Harvey Weinstein has been in legal problems and he was sued by Samuel David Moore, a singer who filed a suit saying that Bob Weinstein had based the Soul Men on Sam & Dave’s Career. Michael Moore, who is a filmmaker, sued the brothers saying that he was not given millions in the profits he made for the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 of 2004. The case stopped because of private settlement. His net worth is 200 million dollars and when he was still working for a salary, he was getting a million dollar salary. Their first company was Miramax and it was named after their parents Miriam and Max.