After feeling shattered and fearing public appearances, Georgina Chapman, ex-wife of Harvey Weinstein, found happiness again—and even returned to the red carpet—thanks to her romance with 2025 Oscar nominee Adrien Brody.
Bouncing back from a breakup can be tough, but after a bad one, it can feel nearly impossible. Georgina Chapman knows this all too well. Though she may not have been aware of her then-husband Harvey Weinstein’s actions, she was shocked when accusations of sexual harassment, assault, and rape surfaced in October 2017 from numerous women.
“I was terribly naive—clearly, so naive,” she admitted in a 2018 interview with Vogue. “I have moments of rage, moments of confusion, moments of disbelief!”
By the time Weinstein was convicted in February 2020 of third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual act in his New York City trial, she felt only sadness. (Weinstein’s conviction was overturned in April 2024, and a new trial was ordered.)
“She’s still heartbroken and grieving for all the victims,” a source told E! News at the time. “The pain of that will never go away.”
Time may not be enough to heal all her wounds, but perhaps love can help.
Georgina Chapman, 48, the British fashion designer and co-founder of the beloved Marchesa brand, was first linked to Oscar winner Adrien Brody in late 2019. Since then, she has been by his side as he collects awards for his role as a post-World War II refugee in last year’s The Brutalist.
During his Golden Globe acceptance speech on January 5, Brody, 51, expressed his gratitude, saying, “To my beautiful and amazing partner Georgina, your generosity of spirit, your own resilience, your immense creativity are a daily reminder of how to be. I would not be standing here before you if it wasn’t for you.”
He also publicly praised his “beautiful girlfriend” at the Critics Choice Awards on February 7 and again at the BAFTA Film Awards nine days later.
If Adrien Brody finds himself thanking the Academy on March 2 at the 2025 Oscars, where he’s nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role alongside Timothée Chalamet, Colman Domingo, Ralph Fiennes, and Sebastian Stan, his biggest supporter, Georgina Chapman, will undoubtedly be there cheering him on.
“What an amazing night!” Chapman wrote on Instagram after their Critics Choice date. “Congratulations to my darling Adrien on your well-deserved win, I couldn’t be more proud.”
More than five years after reconnecting at an industry dinner, the couple seems to have found the perfect formula for romance. Brody and Chapman share a passion for their respective careers—Brody won an Oscar in 2002 for The Pianist, while Chapman has earned accolades from the British Fashion Awards and the CFDA—and a mutual respect for each other’s drive. They even share the same birthday, April 14.
“Happy birthday my darling twin,” Chapman wrote to her fellow Aries last year. “So happy to share this day with my best friend.”
And, most of all, she’s happy to have someone worthy of her birthday wishes.
In the months following the bombshell revelations about Harvey Weinstein, Georgina Chapman, who had once described him to Vogue as “incredibly charming and so charismatic, it sort of draws you in,” swore off dating. She felt that even appearing in public was somehow wrong.
“I was so humiliated and so broken… that… I, I, I… didn’t think it was respectful to go out,” she explained in Vogue‘s June 2018 issue. She spent the following five months retreating first to Los Angeles, then to her parents’ home in London, and finally to New York City. “I thought, Who am I to be parading around with all of this going on? It’s still so very, very raw. I was walking up the stairs the other day and I stopped; it was like all the air had been punched out of my lungs.”
Chapman initially resisted speaking to anyone outside a small circle, which included her longtime friend, actor David Oyelowo, and Huma Abedin, the political staffer who had her own highly publicized split from former congressman Anthony Weiner.
Though the idea of seeing a therapist was suggested, Georgina Chapman admitted, “I was too shocked. And I somehow felt that I didn’t deserve it.” But eventually, she came to realize, “This has happened. I have to own it. I have to move forward.”
She began processing her guilt, anger, and deep sadness for what her children, India, 14, and Dashiell, 11, might face. “What are people going to say to them?” she wondered. “It’s like, they love their dad. They love him.”
Throughout this period, Chapman allowed friends to push her out of her West Village townhouse. It was during one of these outings that she reconnected with Adrien Brody. Although they had crossed paths before in the tight-knit Hollywood circle, it was at Puerto Rico’s Dorado Beach Ritz-Carlton Reserve, during Helena Christensen’s swimwear launch in April 2019, where something clicked—at the same table, no less, as Page Six reported.
Soon, Adrien Brody—whose 2006 film Hollywoodland was co-produced by Weinstein’s former company—became part of the circle of supporters helping Georgina Chapman recover from one of the lowest points of her life.
In the months following the revelation of Weinstein’s scandal, Chapman’s lifelong friend and collaborator, Keren Craig, stepped in to manage Marchesa’s headquarters in New York. Craig worked to steady the brand they had founded together in 2004 after meeting as students at Chelsea College of Art and Design.
“Our friendship always comes first, so foremost, I was worried for Georgina,” Craig, who has since left the label for a new venture, told Vogue in 2018. “Secondly, we have so many talented, loyal people who work for us, some who’ve been here for twelve, thirteen years, so my concern was to get to the office and get the collections out, so that people could be paid and pay their rents.”
Meanwhile, David Oyelowo, a friend Chapman had made while on her way to a drama school audition, took care of the personal side.
“I kind of found myself in a first-responder capacity,” he told Vogue about hosting her at his home. “My wife and I were right there with her two kids, and this catastrophe was unfolding in real time across the globe, literally your worst nightmare in terms of a marriage, the future of your kids, and your business. And none of this was your own doing, and yet you are entirely lumped into it.”
For David Oyelowo, the hardest part was seeing how Georgina Chapman, understandably, chose not to defend herself. “There was just too much white noise and too much bile headed in her general direction,” he said. “She felt, How dare I raise my head and say, ‘Oh, by the way, I’m suffering too?'”
Chapman herself told Vogue she didn’t want the pity. “I don’t want to be viewed as a victim,” she said. “I don’t think I am. I am a woman in a s–t situation, but it’s not unique.”
Years after the depths of that scandal, she now finds herself in another not-so-unique situation: a woman in love.
By 2022, Chapman and Adrien Brody were making public appearances together, attending the Vanity Fair Oscars party that March and walking the steps of the Met Gala that May.
Georgina Chapman and Adrien Brody returned to the iconic Met steps last May, just after Chapman made her return to Instagram, posting for the first time since 2017.
“Date night this time last week,” she wrote on May 13, sharing a photo of her Marchesa outfit and Brody’s icy blonde locks.
Though they dressed up for fashion’s biggest night at New York City’s JW Marriott Essex House, the couple normally enjoys life at their farm in upstate New York, where they share the land with “a menagerie” of pets, including a dog, four cats, and miniature donkeys, as Brody recently shared with People.
When he’s not on set or performing in London, where he had a two-month run in The Fear of 13 last fall, Brody prefers to spend his time in the recording studio or painting studio. “And then go for hikes and spend time with the animals. It’s quite special,” he told the magazine.
The woman who’s usually by Adrien Brody’s side is also a big part of his gratitude.
He shared with People, “I’m very grateful to have a partner with kindness and intelligence and insight. That goes a really long way.”
Brody also emphasized the importance of perspective.
“You can have the most fortunate life and be a miserable, unhappy person,” he said. “You can have a glimpse of happiness or an encounter that can bring such tremendous joy and inspiration that you can carry through in so many other ways.”
Summing it up, Brody added, “It’s impossible not to have perspective if you’ve witnessed and experienced so much. And I’m most grateful for that.”