Christie Brinkley has been married just a few occasions through the years— 4 in reality — and he or she opened up about her previous love life in her 2025 memoir, Uptown Lady. Her precedence lies together with her children, Alexa Ray, Jack and Sailor, and he or she as soon as revealed courting isn’t at all times the best at a sure age.
“It’s not that simple to satisfy folks,” she informed Us Weekly in 2019. “Whenever you’re youthful, you assume no one’s married but. However now you assume that everyone is married, so it’s laborious to really meet folks.”
Even when Christie had been to satisfy somebody particular, it appears like she’s not trying to get hitched any time quickly. “I don’t actually see a cause for marriage,” she stated to the outlet on the time. “Possibly there’s tax benefits or inheritance benefits or hospital benefits. However I at all times considered doing it to have children. And since I’m not having any extra children, why complicate issues?”
After all, this view on marriage comes after Christie stated “I do” 4 occasions all through her life. Maintain studying to search out out what influenced her newest tackle marriage, as we meet her former husbands, beneath.
Jean-François Allaux
Christie was solely 19 years outdated when she headed off to Paris to review artwork. Whereas there in1973, she met and married French artist Jean-François Allaux. For such a younger couple, they defied odds and stayed collectively for nearly 8 years! The artist retired in 2019 from his place as Affiliate Professor within the Division of Artwork and Design on the College of Massachusetts Dartmouth, in line with the college’s web site.
Billy Joel
Far and away, Christie’s most well-known marriage was to pop rock icon Billy Joel. The pair had met in 1983 whereas they had been each vacationing in St. Bart’s among the many glitterati. With a lot star energy on the Caribbean island, the “Piano Man” hitmaker needed to stand out and so he did by posing like his personal album cowl. “I attempted to seem like me on an album cowl. I gave it each angle I may,” he informed Rolling Stone in 1986. He stated he then started to tickle the ivories. “The music was the important thing to the introduction,” he added. “She sat down and began singing, too.”
In 1985, the couple wed in New York Harbor whereas aboard a 147-foot yacht, per Individuals. They welcomed daughter Alexa Ray later that yr. Billy usually shares candy snaps of Alexa Ray on his Instagram.
By the spring of 1994, Christie and Billy Joel had cut up. “Simply because folks can specific themselves via their artwork doesn’t imply they’re nice communicators in particular person,” Christie stated on the time, in a cryptic assertion.
The Grammy winner would go on to marry Katie Lee in 2004, solely to divorce six years later. In 2015, he wed equestrian Alexis Roderick, with whom he shares daughters Della, and Remy.
Richard Taubman
Christie and actual property developer Richard Taubman had an eyebrow-raising begin to their romance. The pair had survived a helicopter crash collectively in Telluride in April 1994. By Might, Richard proposed. By the best way, she was nonetheless married to Billy Joel! Nonetheless, Christie and Billy broke up round that point, permitting her and Richard to skip off into marital bliss and welcome son Jack in 1995. The wedding was fairly transient, as they cut up a yr later.
Peter Prepare dinner
Solely a yr after saying “goodbye” to Richard, Christie was engaged to architect Peter Prepare dinner, whom she had met when she first began modeling. Peter would go on to undertake Jack, giving him the surname Brinkley-Prepare dinner. Jack quickly had a half-sister when Christie and Peter welcomed Sailor on July 2, 1998.
Nonetheless, the couple cut up after 10 years of marriage in 2006, after Peter engaged in an extramarital affair with an 18-year-old assistant. In the course of the divorce trial, allegations that he was additionally hooked on porn had been additionally offered. “My hope is that the world will see that I’m not the scumbag pervert that I’ve been painted to be,” he informed Barbara Walters in 2008, per NBC Washington. “I used to be searching for a connection I couldn’t discover in my very own marriage,” he added.
In her 2025 memoir, Uptown Lady, Christie mirrored on the breakdown of her marriage to Peter, calling it the “most tortured relationship I’ve ever had.”
“When your entire world falls aside and also you understand in a heartbeat you’ve instantly develop into the cliche middle-aged lady whose husband is having an affair with a a lot (a lot) youthful lady, what do you do?” Christie asks in her e-book.
