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Before she found love with Adrien Brody, who thanked her 2 children in his Oscar speech, Georgina Chapman's decade-long marriage to Harvey Weinstein imploded after he was accused of sexual misconduct.

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Hindsight is X-ray vision when it comes to Harvey Weinstein.

But eight years ago, he was a free man and he attended the 2017 Oscars with his second wife, Georgina Chapman. The Weinstein Company's Lion was a Best Picture contender, though it lost to Moonlight (and, briefly, to La La Land).

Less than eight months later, the couple's decade-long union—which produced daughter India Pearl and son Dashiell— imploded in the wake of a pile-up of sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein.

"My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions," Chapman said in an Oct. 10, 2017, statement to People. "I have chosen to leave my husband. Caring for my young children is my first priority and I ask the media for privacy at this time." Their divorce was finalized in 2021.

So when Chapman's partner Adrien Brody thanked India and Dash for accepting him into their lives during his very long Best Actor speech at the 2025 Oscars, he wasn't exaggerating when he said, "I know it's been a roller coaster."

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As the extent of Weinstein's alleged misbehavior became known, starting with bombshell reports in The New York Times and The New Yorker—"Women have been talking about Harvey amongst ourselves for a long time," Ashley Judd told the Times, "and it's simply beyond time to have the conversation publicly"—Chapman retreated from the spotlight with her kids.

And the Marchesa cofounder stayed out of it for months before breaking her silence in the June 2018 issue of Vogue.

"When I went to see Georgina not long after the news broke," wrote longtime plafriend Anna Wintour in her Editor's Letter, "she was near mute with shock, trying to process the emotions—anger, guilt, revulsion, fear—as well as grappling with the terrible wider human cost in all of this."

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As Chapman told the publication at the time, "I was so humiliated and so broken...that...I, I, I...didn't think it was respectful to go out."

But eventually she started venturing beyond the walls of her six-story West Village townhouse in the company of a few trusted friends. And it was during an April 2019 excursion to Puerto Rico's Dorado Beach Ritz-Carlton Reserve for pal Helena Christensen's swimwear launch that she clicked with Brody—whom she knew from the Hollywood circuit she once frequented with Weinstein.

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Though Chapman was a fixture on the red carpet with him—as was her brand Marchesa, a more common answer in those days to the "Who are you wearing?" question—she and Weinstein led a fairly private life as a couple, splitting their time between New York, Connecticut and L.A. and keeping their kids out of the public eye aside from the occasional share on her Instagram.

Weinstein started dating Chapman in 2004, right around the time she was launching Marchesa with partner Keren Craig—and not long after he and his first wife (and former assistant) Eve Chilton, with whom he shares three daughters, split up after 17 years of marriage.

He met the English designer when he approached her at a party in New York.

"I had no idea who he was," Chapman told Vogue for a story published Jan. 22, 2013. "He's not a person you can sort of ignore or brush off. He's incredibly charming and so charismatic, it sort of draws you in."

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Weinstein joked years later about the odd-couple factor, Chapman—who worked as a model before focusing on fashion—being 24 years younger than he is and decidedly more photogenic.

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"On the first date that I took my wife out...she walks into the restaurant and she trips and falls right on her butt," Weinstein told CBS News in 2013. "I go first, 'There is a God!' because that evened the playing field right away, and secondly, I said to her, 'That was the opening scene when Myrna Loy walked into William Powell in The Thin Man.' 'I said, 'Georgina, meet Dashiell Hammett,' and she read [Hammett's book] The Thin Man."

Hence the inspiration for their son's name.

But first the courtship, which lasted for several years. The pair became a fixture of New York and L.A. society, hitting every important fashion and film event. It also wasn't long before Marchesa took off, either, the New York-headquartered, British-bred brand fast becoming a go-to red carpet favorite among the celebrity set.

Asked about the chatter that he was pulling one Hollywood string after another to get Marchesa off the ground, Weinstein told the New York Times in 2007, "The people who say things like that are just jealous, it takes away from the talent that Marchesa has exemplified."

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Not that he wasn't involved at all. "Maybe I helped, but just very, very little, with Renée Zellweger," Weinstein, who was among the label's early investors, told Vogue. Zellweger, fresh from winning an Oscar for Miramax production Cold Mountain, wore Marchesa to the premiere of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason in 2004, and Cate Blanchett donned the brand at the premiere of The Aviator (also from Miramax) later that year.

Recalling that time, when the speculation of the day was that her success hinged on the man in her life, Chapman said, "It's no different from being in school and someone says something. Your whole life is filled with things like that."

She also quipped to the U.K.'s The Times in 2013, "Have you seen the way he dresses? I would not let him near this brand."

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Meanwhile, Chapman started her run as a judge on Project Runway: All Stars in 2012, and her brand grew to include Notte by Marchesa, the contemporary line Marchesa Voyage, handbags, fragrances, fine jewelry and engagement rings, stationery and tabletop home decor. (Craig left Marchesa in 2019.)

Chapman and Weinstein married on Dec. 15, 2007—a month after getting engaged—at his waterfront estate in Westport, Conn., in front of a Met Gala's worth of luminaries, including Zellweger, Wintour, Christensen, Jennifer Lopez and then-husband Marc Anthony, Naomi Watts, Cameron Diaz, Quentin Tarantino, Karolina Kurkova and Rupert Murdoch.

Chapman designed her own dress—and yes, the bride wore Marchesa. The reception featured catering by Nobu and Cipriani, and the newlyweds asked that their guests donate to charity in lieu of sending gifts. A fireworks display launched from a barge on Long Island Sound festively punctuated the evening.

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"Unlike her husband, she's really nice," Weinstein told Vogue of Chapman. "People will believe that, trust me. Sometimes people don't associate people who look like that with compassion and that kind of kindness—but that's who she is more than anyone else."

Daughter India was born on Aug. 30, 2010, and would soon become her mom's favorite companion.

"I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter," Chapman, pregnant with Dashiell at the time, told People in December 2012. "My family is my number-one priority."

She continued, "India comes into the office with me most days—she has her little area with a desk and she draws. I leave later in the mornings now and spend the mornings with her, so I do see her. She spends a lot of time with me at work.  I don't know how that's going to work once she's at school—I'm going to miss her, it's going to be hard."

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When Dashiell was born in 2013, Weinstein told CBS News that he was excited to finally have a son, mainly because his older daughters were just over him.

Driving them to the mall, he shared, "They say, 'Dad, park three miles [away], we don't want to be seen with you. Meet us at the pizza store four miles over here because we're embarrassed of you and you're annoying.'"

Weinstein and Chapman, who is also a judge on Project Runway: All Stars, joked that they made a point of attending red carpet events together because they were often the only date nights they had time for. The 2013 Vogue story noted that, when Weinstein had to work late, he'd try to stop by their West Village home for a few hours before going back to his office in Tribeca. They traveled together with their kids whenever they could—and they always seemed to be flying somewhere.

For instance, their blended family, including Weinstein's three kids from his first marriage, rented a villa in Baker's Bay in the Bahamas for the holidays in 2013, and the following year, they told Vogue, they were planning a big holiday in London, followed by a New Year's ski trip in Gstaad, Switzerland.

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In 2015, Weinstein was investigated and ultimately cleared after a 22-year-old model accused him of groping her in his office at the Tribeca Film Center in New York. "After analyzing the available evidence, including multiple interviews with both parties, a criminal charge is not supported," the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said that April.

While authorities were looking into the model's claim, Weinstein and Chapman were spotted together at their Connecticut estate.

A few days before news of the allegations broke in March 2015, she was asked by Fashionista what was in the works for Charles James, the defunct fashion house Weinstein had purchased the rights to and on which his wife was supposedly going to be consulting.

"I'm not actually," she replied. "My husband has bought the brand, but I don't think that anything has been confirmed as to what they're doing with it. You'd have to talk to him about it; I really don't know what his plans are." 

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But a year later, Chapman painted a picture of almost normal-sounding domesticity (for rich and famous people, that is).

She told Haute Living in August 2016 that when she and Weinstein were both in New York, they tried to limit nights out of the house to two a week, and they would watch three or four movies over the course of a weekend. On typical weekdays, she said, she took the kids to school, exercised and spent the rest of the day at her studio or otherwise working before returning home for dinner, playtime and bedtime with India and Dashiell.

"We hang out," she said.

Afterward, Chapman liked to unwind with a glass of wine and some good TV—Peaky Blinders (courtesy of The Weinstein Company) was in her Netflix queue at the time. (Incidentally, Brody had a six-episode arc on the period drama in 2017.)

Family weekends in Connecticut or Amagansett, "just being there with my kids and husband and going for walks on the beach with them and the dogs," made for the ideal weekend, Chapman said.

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In 2017, however, the couple listed the Amagansett house, which they bought in 2014 for $11.65 million. Over the summer they lowered the asking price to $12.4 million from $13.5 million for the 9,000-square-foot, seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom mansion. Weinstein told the Wall Street Journal that they simply couldn't get away to their Hamptons home as often as they would like.

And there would be no more picture-perfect holiday vacations in his and Chapman's future. Instead, Weinstein became persona non grata that October and he has remained so. He pleaded not guilty to all criminal charges but was convicted in 2020 of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual act in the first degree in New York and sentenced to 23 years in prison (an appellate court overturned the verdict in 2024 and he's awaiting a retrial from Rikers Island jail). He was also found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and third-degree sexual misconduct in Los Angeles in 2022 and sentenced to 16 years in prison, to be served after his New York case is resolved.

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In response to Brody's warm words about Weinstein and Chapman's children at the Oscars, a rep for the disgraced producer—who was kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Oct. 14, 2017—told Us Weekly, "Harvey is happy for Georgina and grateful that his kids are being loved and cared for as they deserve to be."

Brody, in giving the longest-ever acceptance speech in Oscars history, also thanked Chapman.

“I share this with my amazing partner, Georgina, who's not only reinvigorated my own self-worth," he said, "but my sense of value and my values."

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