Eve Chilton spent seventeen years married to Harvey Weinstein. She walked away in December 2004, when he was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, and she has never explained why. Their youngest daughter was two at the time, and nothing in the press that year pointed to trouble.
Thirteen years later, the reporting that ended Weinstein’s career made plain what kind of man he had been. By then Chilton was long gone, raising their three daughters out of public view. She left at the peak, years before the rest of the world saw any reason to.
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Who is Eve Chilton?
Eve Chilton is an American woman known mainly as the first wife of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein. Born in Boston in 1955, she married him in 1987, raised their three daughters, and divorced him in 2004. She has stayed out of public life almost entirely since.
| Full name | Eve Chilton |
| Born | September 1, 1955, Boston, Massachusetts |
| Known for | First wife of Harvey Weinstein |
| Married to Weinstein | 1987 to 2004 |
| Daughters | Remy (1995), Emma (1998), Ruth (2002) |
| Second husband | Sal Martirano (later separated) |
| Lives | New York City |
An old New England family
Chilton grew up wealthy, in a New England family with its own standing. Her father, Tom Chilton, worked as an investment consultant whose clients ran from Boston out to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. Her mother, Maude, came from a legal background. The family spent summers on the Vineyard and belonged to the Country Club in Brookline.
Her roots run deep in Virginia as well. One forebear, Edmund Randolph Williams, helped found the Richmond law firm now known as Hunton Andrews Kurth, one of the oldest in the country. The Randolph name in the family traces back to Edmund Randolph, the first United States Attorney General.
At eighteen, she moved to New York to try acting. The work never came. She spent years in the city before the job that would shape the rest of her life.
How she met Harvey Weinstein
Chilton was hired as an assistant at Miramax in 1986, the studio Weinstein ran with his brother Bob. He was her boss. Former colleagues later described his pursuit of her in blunt terms. In Peter Biskind’s book Down and Dirty Pictures, staff recalled roses piling up on her desk by the dozen until they told him to stop.
The two married in 1987. Weinstein was still a little known independent distributor then, years before Pulp Fiction and Shakespeare in Love turned him into a power broker.
Three daughters and a long marriage
The marriage lasted seventeen years, almost exactly the span of Miramax’s rise. The couple had three daughters:
- Remy, born in 1995 and originally named Lily
- Emma, born in 1998
- Ruth, born in 2002
For most of those years the family lived at The Brentmore, a 1928 cooperative at 88 Central Park West whose residents have included Paul Simon, Sting and Robert De Niro. What Chilton knew during the marriage is something she has never discussed. One episode from the period did become public. French actress Florence Darel told People that Weinstein propositioned her in a hotel room in the mid 1990s while his wife sat in the room next door.
How much did Eve Chilton get in the divorce?
The settlement usually gets reduced to a single number, a $60 million payout. Court filings show something more structured.
The $60 million was a child support obligation paid out over years, not a lump sum. It included:
- $50,000 a year for vacations
- $100,000 a year for camps
- $500,000 toward college
- regular monthly support for the children
Chilton also kept the family’s apartment at The Brentmore. She later sold it, with the price reported at around $23 million.
The 2017 child support fight
For thirteen years after the divorce, Chilton kept quiet. That changed in December 2017, weeks after the New York Times reporting on Weinstein broke.
Her attorney, Bonnie Rabin, went before Justice Michael Katz in Manhattan Supreme Court and asked him to order Weinstein to prepay the $5 million still owed under the support agreement, before the mounting lawsuits drained his money. Weinstein’s lawyer, Steven Silpe, told the court his client had never missed a payment in the years since the divorce. The judge denied the request.
Chilton said nothing to reporters and went home.
Where is Eve Chilton now?
After the divorce, Chilton married a businessman named Sal Martirano and moved with her daughters to a New York suburb. That marriage later ended, and she and Ruth returned to New York City, where she lives now and reportedly works in her family’s business.
She has never given an interview or written a book about her marriage. No reliable figure for her net worth has been published, whatever the numbers circulating online suggest.
Harvey Weinstein in 2026, and the daughters who cut him off
Weinstein’s life looks nothing like hers. He is serving sixteen years from a 2022 Los Angeles rape conviction. His 2020 New York conviction was overturned in 2024, a 2025 retrial found him guilty again on one count, and a remaining rape charge ended in a second mistrial in May 2026, leaving prosecutors to decide whether to try him a third time. He was also diagnosed with myeloid leukemia while in custody.
In a prison interview in July 2025, he said his family had become his priority. By early 2026, he admitted that his two younger daughters with Chilton would not see him. The three women she raised have cut their father off.
Chilton has said nothing about any of it. She rarely has.
