Christy Linkley They were married several times over the years – in fact four – and she was opened up about past love lives in her 2025 memoir. Uptown girl. Her priorities lie with her children; Alexa Ray, Jack and Sailor, And she once revealed that dating is not always the easiest of a certain age.
“It’s not that easy to meet people,” she said. US every week 2019. “When you’re young, you don’t think anyone’s married yet. But now you’re assuming everyone is married, so it’s hard to actually meet people.”
Even if Christy meets someone special, it sounds like she doesn’t want to be a hitch anytime soon. “I’ve never really seen the reason for getting married,” she told the outlet at the time. “Maybe there are tax benefits, inheritance benefits, hospital benefits, but I’ve always thought about doing it to have a child.
Of course, this view on marriage comes after Christie said throughout her life, “I will.” When we met her ex-husband, find out what influenced her latest marriage and continue reading.
Jean-François Allaux
Christie was only 19 years old when she headed to Paris to study art. While there in 1973, she met and married a French artist. Jean-François Allaux. For such a young couple, they ignored the odds and were together for almost eight years! According to the school’s website, the artist retired in 2019 from his position as an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts’ Office of Art at Dartmouth University.
Billy Joel
Far away, Christie’s most famous marriage was a pop rock icon Billy Joel. The two met in 1983, and they both were on vacation in St. Bart in Glittertee. With so many star power on the Caribbean island, the hitmaker of “Piano Man” had to stand out, so he posed like his album cover. “I tried to look like me on the album cover. I gave it the best angle I could,” he said. Rolling Stone In 1986 he said he had since started tickling his ivory. “Music was key to the introduction,” he added. “She sat down and started singing.”
In 1985, the couple got married in New York Harbor while riding a 147-foot yacht. people. They welcomed their daughter Alexaray The second half of that year. Billy often shares Alexa Ray’s sweet snaps on his Instagram.
By the spring of 1994, Christie and Billy Joel had split. “Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn’t mean they are great communicators,” Christie said in an inexplicable statement.
Grammy winners continue to marry Katie Lee They only got divorced in 2004, six years later. In 2015 he married horse riding Alexis RoderickThe person he shares his daughter fromand Remy.
Richard Taubman
Christie and the Real Estate Developer Richard Taubman There was a start that raised eyebrows into their romance. The pair survived a helicopter crash in Telluride in April 1994. By May, Richard had proposed. Incidentally, she was still married to Billy Joel! However, Christie and Billy parted ways, allowing her and Richard to skip to the couple’s bliss and welcome their son Jack 1995. The marriage was very short as it split a year later.
Peter Cook
Just a year after saying “Goodbye” to Richard, Christie was working as an architect Peter Cookthe person she met when she first started modeling. Peter adopted Jack and gave him the last name Brinkley Cook. When Christie and Peter welcomed Sailor on July 2, 1998, Jack was immediately hugging her sisters.
However, the couple split after their 2006 marriage after working in extramarital affairs with an 18-year-old assistant. During his divorce trial, allegations were also presented that he was obsessed with porn. “My hope is for the world to see that I’m not a pervert in a scumbag I’ve painted like I was drawn,” he said. Barbara Walters Around 2008, around Washington, NBC. “I was looking for connections that I couldn’t find in my marriage,” he added.
In her 2025 memoir, Uptown GirlChristie recalls the collapse of her marriage to Peter, calling it “the most tortured relationship I’ve ever had.”
“What do you do when your whole world falls apart and in the heartbeat, you suddenly realize that your husband has become a cliched middle-aged woman with a connection to many (many) young women?” Christie asks in her book.
