8 Things to Know about Designer Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein's Wife
The Marchesa designer's driver was reportedly arrested after allegedly fighting with a paparazzi photographs
May 25, 2018
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Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was arrested in New York City Friday morning, and his estranged wife, Georgina Chapman, was reportedly connected to another arrest in Manhattan this week.
Her driver Cristovoa Proenca, 44, was "charged with criminal mischief for allegedly getting handsy with a lensman trying to photograph" the Marchesa designer and her two children on West 11th Street in the West Village, sources told the New York Post.
Chapman's fashion label is working to regain its prominence in the fashion world. After the brand called off its runway show at New York Fashion Week this past February —"Georgina couldn’t go through with it," a fashion insider told the New York Post. "She was too scared."—actress Scarlett Johansson mad... less
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Traveling Wilburys
... moreTweeter and the Monkey Man
Traveling Wilburys
Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cashThey stayed up all night selling cocaine and hashTo an undercover cop who had a sister named JanFor reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man
Tweeter was a Boy Scout 'fore she went to VietnamAnd found out the hard way, nobody gives a damnThey knew that they found freedom just across the Jersey lineSo they hopped into a stolen car, took Highway 99
And the walls came downAll the way to hellNever saw them when they're standingNever saw them when they fell
The undercover cop never liked the Monkey ManEven back in childhood he wanted to see him in the canJan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named BillShe made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill
It was out on Thunder Road, Tweeter at the wheelThey crashed into paradise, they could hear them tires squealThe undercover cop pulled up and said "Everyone of you is a liarIf you don't surrender now it's gonna go down to the wire"
And the walls came d... less
