In an interview from Rikers Island, Harvey Weinstein stated he has been cut off from old friends and colleagues since his 2017 sex crime allegations. The 73-year-old producer also criticized Gwyneth Paltrow for her past accusations against him. Weinstein is serving a 16-year sentence in California while awaiting a New York retrial after his conviction was overturned in 2024 and reinstated in 2025.
Harvey Weinstein, convicted of sex crimes in California and serving a 16-year sentence, spoke from New York City's Rikers Island jail in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. He described being largely isolated from his former professional and personal circles since the 2017 allegations that contributed to the #MeToo movement.
Weinstein expressed a desire for contact with industry figures like Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ted Sarandos, and Bradley Cooper, saying, “I wish Jeffrey Katzenberg would take my call. I wish Ted Sarandos would, Bradley Cooper. I miss these people not just as business – there was more to it than that.” He added, “But I’m cancel-itis. Toxic. You take my phone call and you get canceled,” and admitted, “I get it. I don’t expect anyone to destroy their careers for me.” He avoids reaching out, stating, “I’m scared to call people because I don’t want them canceled for talking to me.”
Regarding his family, Weinstein noted his 2017 separation from wife Georgina Chapman, with their divorce finalized in 2021. They share children India, 15, and Dashiell, 12. He said Chapman allows the children to visit him, though they no longer speak directly. Weinstein commented on Chapman's relationship with Adrien Brody, which began in 2020 after being linked in 2019, saying, “It’s good that my kids have someone in their lives.” He acknowledged, “Georgina suffered terribly because of me,” and “she knew nothing about what I was doing. I was a master of deception.” Brody thanked Chapman and her children in his 2025 Academy Awards speech.
Weinstein also addressed allegations from Gwyneth Paltrow, 53, who in 2017 claimed he made an unwanted advance when she was 22 during a hotel meeting for a film role. Paltrow rejected it and told her then-boyfriend Brad Pitt, 62, who confronted Weinstein in 1995 at a Broadway event, reportedly pushing him against a wall and warning, “If you ever make her feel uncomfortable again, I’ll kill you.” Weinstein recounted, “I walked out of a nice meeting with her and said, ‘How about a massage?’ And she just went, ‘No, I don’t think so.’ I got the message. I never put my hands on her.” He criticized Paltrow for discussing it on Howard Stern, saying, “She knows that nothing happened. But this person who was a friend, who owes her career to me, just stabs me in the back... I won’t forgive her for that.” Paltrow had said on Stern, “I was expected to keep the secret... This way of treating women ends now.” She won an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, produced by Weinstein's Miramax.
Weinstein has denied non-consensual activity, maintaining any relationships were consensual. His New York conviction was overturned in 2024 due to prejudicial testimony but led to a subsequent conviction in 2025.
