Harvey Weinstein Reacts to Adrien Brody Shouting Out His Kids in Oscars Speech

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."

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."

"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."

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."

"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."

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.

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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