People: Georgina Chapman ‘was never with Harvey when he behaved like this’
I would imagine that People Magazine’s cover story this week is going to be more in-depth than just their first-released partial article about Georgina Chapman. I still can’t believe that People didn’t devote last week’s cover to Weinstein, but in all fairness, I guess People’s target audience was more wrapped up in Chip and Joanna Gaines leaving HGTV?? Seriously? So, People waited a week and did their reporting and created a cover with Weinstein and all of his most prominent victims. And then the story is about Georgina Chapman for some reason.
Over the course of their nearly ten-year marriage, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and fashion designer Georgina Chapman appeared to be the ultimate power couple. “Their relationship started out with the understanding that if you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours,” a source close to both tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story.
While Chapman, 41, was aware of her husband’s notorious temper, even apologizing “many times for his verbally rough behavior,” according to the source, she wasn’t aware of Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct. “She never would have stayed married if she’d known,” says the source. “She was never with Harvey when he behaved like this.” On Oct. 10, Chapman announced she was leaving Weinstein. In a statement to PEOPLE, she said, “My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered.” She has since met with divorce lawyers. “The past week has been a never-ending nightmare for Georgina,” says the source.
Surrounded now by relatives and close friends, Chapman is attempting to “focus all her energy on her two young children to try to protect them from everything that’s going on,” says another friend. She’s also trying to salvage Marchesa, which had to cancel a presentation of its latest collection and was recently dropped from a collaboration with Helzberg Diamonds.
Also in PEOPLE’s new cover story, some of Weinstein’s alleged victims talk about the courage it took to come forward — and multiple sources also detail the climate of fear and abuse around Weinstein, 65, who has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex as more than 40 women have stepped forward with accounts of sexual assault or harassment. Weinstein “has never done anything in his life that was consensual,” says one source who worked with him for years. “He makes people do things. He assaults people in every way.”
Describing the work environment, another source says, “It was human harassment at every level. Mass intimidation, constant threats — to men and women — about losing your job. It was mocking people about their physicality, about their age. One of his favorite lines was, ‘I’ll fire you on the cover of Variety.’ ”
While a producer source contends most people around him knew he was cheating on both his first wife, former model Eve Chilton (they split in 2004 and have three daughters) and Chapman, with whom he has a daughter, 7, and a son, 4, few at his company realized what allegedly was truly going on with the women he met.
“I don’t know why no one saw it, why we didn’t know. No one really wanted to think about what was happening behind closed doors,” says the source who worked with him for years. “We were naive. We thought his abuse stopped in the office.”
[From People]
Weinstein “has never done anything in his life that was consensual…He makes people do things. He assaults people in every way.” And then “I don’t know why no one saw it, why we didn’t know. No one really wanted to think about what was happening behind closed doors… We thought his abuse stopped in the office.” Sorry, sources, you don’t get to say that at this point. With each passing day, we’re getting a clearer idea of just how much collusion and complicity was involved with the Weinstein rape/assault/abuse/harassment emporium. There were assistants helping Weinstein manipulate his victims. There were executives helping him cover up and pay out to victims. There were agents and managers sending their clients like lambs to the slaughter into those hotel rooms. Also: while I have some limited sympathy for Georgina Chapman, let’s not paint her as the biggest victim in this expansive story.
Cover courtesy of People, additional photo courtesy of WENN.
Source: People: Georgina Chapman ‘was never with Harvey when he behaved like this’
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