‘Uptown Girl’ was not about her – in the beginning
Christie Brinkley just pulled a 180 by revealing that she was not the muse behind Billy Joel’s huge hit.
It has been believed that Brinkley was the singer Uptown girl For years – but in her shocking new memoirs she says that the song was never about her, but instead a “fantasy girl”, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
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The model said that Joel later came to realize that she was his “upown girl” after they had been dating for a few months.
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Brinkley, 73, was married to Joel, 75, from 1985 to 1994, making him her second husband. Together they have one daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, now 39.
The couple crossed paths for the first time in 1983 on the Caribbean island of St. Barts and made the decision on March 23, 1985 on board a hunt for the Hudson River; That was also the second marriage of Joel.
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Joel was the second husband of Brinkley and the two share the 39-year-old daughter Alexa.
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In her new memoirs, ironically entitled Uptown girlBrinkley admitted that Joel’s song was originally not written with her as the inspiration – despite the fact that she played in the video clip.
She wrote: “Six months after our relationship and a month after that An innocent man Started by dominating the air waves, we did something that would change my life and characterize ourselves for the rest of our relationship: we made the music video for Billy’s new song ‘Uptown Girl.
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“Contrary to what many people think, Billy did not wrote the hit about me – at least not in the first instance – neither Elle Macpherson, but about someone who was just as much imagination as” The Girl in the Red Ferrari. “
However, Uptown girl Quickly became Brinkley’s characteristic song after Joel realized that she was the “Fantasy Girl” in his head.
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The model wrote: “(Up to) one day, when we were in his house on Long Island, that Oyster Bay Harbor looked out, and he suddenly turned to me with a smile on his face that became wider while he spoke.”
She remembered that he said: “I just realized something about this song that I started writing a while ago about someone I imagined.
“And now I look at you here, and I no longer have to imagine her hair – you are here for me, you are my real Uptown girl.”
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Elsewhere in her book, Brinkley revealed the struggles of life with Joel’s alcohol addiction – although she was initially reluctant to share some of the written details.
Before the release of the book, she said that the singer would be missing for days on alcohol-driven benders, so that she was plagued by frightening visions of him in a tree.
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Brinkley’s new memoirs reveals Bombshells from her four marriages, including her struggle with Joel’s alcoholism.
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She explained: “If there wasn’t that issue … I think we were probably really soul mates, it was a great time of my life.”
Once Joel disappeared in the middle of their Thanksgiving dinner and Brinkley closed him on their Hawaii Hotel Suite after he had heard that he had been seen with an Australian actress.
He came back “visible and audibly drunk”, Brinkley wrote in her book and broke out in an anger.
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The breaking point came when Joel, drunk, blamed his band for eating his pasta in their East Hamptons – home – although he had eaten it all himself.
Unveiling that she asked him for a divorce the next day, Brinkley said: “He acted in a way that I have never seen before.”
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Brinkley said: “To be clear, I never wanted to put an end to things with Billy. I read every self -help book that I could find … We went to a series of psychiatrists, psychologists and other doctors.”
The Go outside Singer first went to rehabilitation in 1992 and became sober, but returned in 2005 after a relapse.
In 2023 he told the Los Angeles Times That he stopped drinking “a few years ago.” He is now married to his fourth wife, Alexis Roderick, and they have young daughters Della Rose and Remy Anne.
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Brinkley continued: “He is the father of my firstborn and we spent such great years together. And I will love him forever. Things have just reached a point where I knew I couldn’t live with him.”
She also confirmed that she spoke with Joel before she wrote her new book.
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Brinkley said she is still close to Joel and even spoke with him before she had released her memoirs.
She explained: “Billy said,” Go ahead and tell your story … the good, the bad, whatever you should say. ”
“Leaving Billy was not easy to do for me – and it’s not easy to say something bad about someone I have in such a high -like esteem … (although) I don’t think it’s bad.”
Before Joel, Brinkley was married to Jean-François Allaux and later made the knot with Richard Taubman and Peter Cook. Her relationship with Cook ended in 2008 after learning his unfaithfulness.
