Weinstein sale is imminent

WHILE disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is reportedly running low on cash, his former company has managed to keep paying its employees in the wake of the scandal that rocked the company.

Final details are being hammered out in a sale of the Weinstein Co. which is expected to be announced as soon as this week, sources tell Page Six. The film firm’s being bought by a group led by Maria Contreras-Sweet, whose offer reportedly includes renaming the company and installing a women-led board.

Multiple sources tell us that shell-shocked day-to-day staffers have been regularly paid since the scandal. “They have not missed a paycheck, and all the checks have cleared,” one surprised insider told us. Much of the company’s high-powered board jumped ship.

With no film releases in the pipeline, there hasn’t been much for workers in certain departments to do besides try to process what happened and move on. The company sold its interest in current release “Paddington 2” to Warner Bros., and release dates for its planned films, such as “The Current War,” have been pushed off.

A Weinstein Co. staffer at a Golden Globes party was overheard saying she’d just returned from a month off. And we hear there was a Weinstein Co. reunion in LA last week for current and past employees.

A source says most of the work going on at the company these days has been focused on its sale. “They are working on the sale, and employees are still holding tight and being taken care of,” said an insider. The source added any time off taken would be for vacation days.

We hear the remaining staff are enthusiastic about the possibility of re-emerging under Contreras-Sweet’s fresh-start plan. Under the deal, company co-founder Bob Weinstein would reportedly leave.

Reps for the company did not comment. Harvey’s reportedly spending millions on legal fees, and just reached an eight-figure divorce settlement with estranged wife Georgina Chapman.