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Jul 12, 2023 · Billy Joel was quite the ladies' man back in the day. Elle MacPherson and Christie Brinkley battled it out after meeting Joel in Saint Barts. Initially, he picked MacPherson. But when it came to ...
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Jul 6, 2023 · Christie Brinkley hinted that Billy Joel wasn't good at communicating. Christie Brinkley's split with Billy Joel saddened fans, and many wanted to know why the couple couldn't make their marriage work. At the time, many rumors were flying about why the pair had called it quits, including whisperings that the supermodel wanted to move to the ...
- Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel First Meet
- Christie Brinkley Stars in Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" Music Video
- March 23, 1985: Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel Get Married
- December 29, 1985: Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel Welcome A Daughter
- Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel Divorce
In true celebrity style, Joel and Brinkley met in St. Bart's. Both parties were vacationing on the Caribbean island in early 1983. To get Brinkley's attention, Joel did what he called "an album cover." "I tried to look like me on an album cover. I gave it every angle I could." Recreating the album cover didn't work, but Joel ran across some luck la...
Joel began writing the song "Uptown Girl" while dating Macpherson. During an appearance on Watch What Happens Livein 2018, Macpherson weighed in on an anecdote from Joel's canceled 2011 memoir. Joel claimed that Macpherson had been waiting for him in his apartment when he came home with Brinkley one night. As Macpherson remembered, she was living w...
In 1985, the couple wed in New York Harbor while aboard a 147-foot yacht before buying a home on Long Island, per People. "When you start to get famous, you need a backyard, a place where you can get away from it all," Brinkley told Sports Illustratedin 1989. "I told Joe one day that the second-worst thing I could think of would be to be famous and...
Brinkley and Joel welcomed daughter Alexa Ray in 1985. Although Alexa is their only child, Joel and Brinkley have kids from other relationships — Brinkley shares daughter Sailorand son Jack Paris with ex-husband Peter Cook. Meanwhile, Joel and his wife, Alexis Roderick, share two daughters, Della Rose (born August 2015) and daughter Remy Anne (born...
In April 1994, Joel and Brinkley decided to split after nine years of marriage. People reported the two had been separated since Thanksgiving, with the outlet attributing the cause of the divorceto many factors — including Brinkley's desire to move to the West Coast and her frustrations with Joel's touring schedule. However, Brinkley hinted at anot...
Apr 29, 2024 · Billy Joel and ex-wife Christie Brinkley have remained on good terms in the years after their divorce. The former couple tied the knot in March 1985, welcoming daughter Alexa that December. After ...
In 1994, while on a break from Joel, Brinkley was in a helicopter crash that almost ended her life. Soon afterwards, she divorced Joel to wed Richard Taubman, a fellow survivor of the crash. But while Joel plunged into depression, never to record another rock album, Brinkley’s marriage to Taubman proved even more ill-fated than her ...
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Billy Joel and ex-wife Christie Brinkley have remained on good terms in the years after their divorce. The former couple tied the knot in March 1985, welcoming daughter Alexa that December. After ...
Apr 29, 2024 · A fan captured a video of Christie Brinkley dancing to her ex-husband Billy Joel's hit 'Uptown Girl' while in the crowd of his Madison Square Garden concert in New York City on Friday night, April 26.
