Harvey Weinstein: He is suing his brother

The deeply fallen Hollywood Mogul Harvey Weinstein (72) has filed a lawsuit against his younger brother Bob Weinstein (70). As became known on Thursday, he accuses him and other former executives of their joint company The Weinstein Company that he had declined to have a good million loan.

At the core of the allegations, there is a loan over $ 45 million from 2016, for which Harvey Weinstein had personally died. According to the application, his brother and other responsible persons are said to have misused and branched off for private purposes. “Harvey Weinstein was deceived by his closest confidants,” said his lawyer Imran Ansari in a statement. , the loan was taken out under the pretext of wanting to save the Weinstein Company.

Particularly explosive: Weinstein’s lawyer claims that Bob Weinstein and others have worked towards the fall of his client in order to obtain control of the company. The Weinstein Company went bankrupt in 2018 when the abuse scandal around Harvey Weinstein reached its climax.

Bob Weinstein’s lawyer Brian Kohn decisively rejected the allegations on Friday: “Harvey’s claims are completely baseless.”

Harvey Weinstein is currently in the New York prison complex Rikers Island. He is waiting for another process for sexual offenses after his earlier conviction was lifted to 23 years in prison last year. The seriously ill ex-producer urges a quick start of the process: “I don’t know how long I can last.”

The Oscar-winning producer of films such as “Shakespeare in Love” was in 2017 by revelations about sexual assault on the face of the #Metoo movement. His deep case marked a turning point in dealing with abuse of power in the entertainment industry.