Harvey Weinstein said his British fashion designer wife was standing by him “100 per cent” over accusations of sexual harassment as it was reported he is to be suspended from his film company.

Georgina Chapman, the 41-year-old founder of the Marchesa label, married Weinstein in 2007 and the pair have two children.

She declined to comment yesterday after The New York Times detailed decades of sexual harassment allegations against the Hollywood movie mogul.

Weinstein told the New York Post: “Georgina and I have talked about this at length. Georgina will be kicking my ass to be a better human being and to apologise to people for my bad behaviour, to say I’m sorry, and to absolutely mean it.”

On Friday night Emily Smith, the editor of US website Page Six, revealed that she had spoken with Weinstein on Thursday. She said: “You know he’s a very rambunctious, feisty character, but I’ve never heard him like this.