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In his beingness down the keys and beyond, Billy Joel has travel to emotion a fistful of women conscionable the mode they are. From his archetypal matrimony with Elizabeth Weber to his high-profile romance with Christie Brinkley to his clip arsenic Katie Lee’s (and his fling with Elle MacPherson), Billy has had rather the emotion life. As of 2023, he’s happily joined to Alexis Roderick, an equestrian and erstwhile Morgan Stanley executive, and she’ll beryllium connected manus to spot Billy adjacent retired his history-making tally astatine Madison Square Garden.
On June 1, Billy announced that his residency astatine MSG was coming to a close. He volition extremity his ten-year enactment astatine “The World’s Most Famous Arena” successful July 2024. Since 2014, prevention for the 20-month interruption owed to the pandemic, Billy has hosted monthly showcases astatine MSG, and his extremity volition coincide with his 150th beingness show astatine the Garden. “I’m benignant of flabbergasted that it lasted arsenic agelong arsenic it did,” Joel said successful a property release, per USA Today. “My squad tells maine that we could proceed to merchantability tickets, but 10 years, 150 shows – each close already!”
“It’s hard to judge we’ve been capable to bash this for 10 years,” Joel said during a June 1 property conference, per CNN. “Madison Square Garden is much than conscionable our office, it’s home. It’s hard to extremity – adjacent 150 beingness shows, but arsenic I said, we’re not abandoning New York, we’re conscionable spending a spot much clip someplace else.”
As Billy begins ‘Movin’ Out’ of MSG, here’s a look astatine the women he’s married.
Alexis Roderick
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Alexis Roderick joined Billy Joel successful 2015, six years aft they archetypal met. The 2 archetypal connected astatine a edifice successful Huntington, New York, wherever they’d some gone with friends, per The New Yorker. At the time, she worked arsenic a hazard manager astatine Morgan Stanley. He got her number, finished eating, and called her connected the telephone from crossed the edifice to inquire if she’d springiness him a thrust home. She dropped him disconnected astatine his location successful Centre Island connected Long Island’s North Shore, and helium invited her in.
Billy archetypal offered to play thing for her. She declined. He did it anyway. “It was similar helium couldn’t not beryllium ‘Billy Joel’ astatine the moment,” she told The New Yorker. Afterward, she went location (“I mightiness person gotten a spot fresh,” admits Billy.”) They began to day afterward, and successful 2015, aft Billy convinced her to discontinue her occupation connected Wall Street, they tied the knot.At the time, Alexis was large with their archetypal child. She gave commencement to Della Rose Joel in August 2015. In October 2017, she gave commencement to their 2nd child, Remy Anne Joel.
Katie Lee
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Katie Lee (b. 1981) is simply a chef, cookbook author, and tv nutrient critic. She’s known for co-hosting Food Network’s The Kitchen and Beach Bites with Katie Lee on the Cooking Channel. She’s besides appeared connected Food Network’s Halloween Baking Championship.
Billy and Katie met successful 2003. “I truly thought that Billy Joel had 2 hits,” she told Oprah.com. “I thought it was ‘Uptown Girl’ and ‘Piano Man,’ and that was fundamentally it.” He was visiting New York City erstwhile helium met Katie connected the rooftop barroom astatine The Penisula Hotel.
“I [was] coming retired of the bathroom, and who bash I astir bump into but him,” she says. Her friends asked Billy to articulation them for a drink, and from there, they went to dinner. “We had this large dinner, and we had pasta and achromatic truffles, and helium was truly trying to impressment me,” she said. “I’d accidental it was emotion astatine archetypal wound due to the fact that we had specified a bully meal, and we some emotion food, truthful that was what we bonded over.”
Billy made his determination erstwhile they went to spot Movin’ Out, the Broadway philharmonic based connected Billy’s music. “We spell over, and helium sings the past 2 songs of the show—jumps connected stage, truly laying it connected thick,” she said. “I thought that helium went implicit determination each nighttime and sang the past 2 songs of the show. I didn’t cognize that it was for me!”
Despite the 32-year property gap, Billy’s youthful tone and Katie’s maturity made their romance work. They joined successful 2004. Five years later, they announced that they were separating. “This determination is simply a effect of overmuch thoughtful consideration. Billy and Katie stay caring friends with admiration and respect for each other,” the mates said successful a statement, per the New York Post.
Christie Brinkley
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Perhaps Billy’s astir celebrated narration was with Christie Brinkley. The mates met successful 1983 erstwhile they were some vacationing successful St. Barts. “I was going done a separation and divorce,” helium told Rolling Stone in 1986. “I had conscionable finished a tour, and I was exhausted. Paul Simon had rented a location down successful a spot called St. Bart’s, this land successful the Caribbean, and helium said, ‘Look, it’s large down here. It’s existent quiet. Just instrumentality a break.’ It sounded similar a bully idea. When I was making the transportation formation — you spell down to St. Martin, past you instrumentality a commuter level — I saw Christie Brinkley. I recognized her immediately. She was much beauteous than she was successful her pictures — ‘Oh, wow, that’s Christie Brinkley. I wonderment if she knows who I am.’ So I did what I telephone an medium screen — I tried to look similar maine connected an medium cover. I gave it each space I could. She didn’t admit maine from a spread successful the wall.”
“And past I was connected St. Bart’s, and I went to this barroom successful the PLM hotel. They person a small soft there, and I had a mates of drinks. I was feeling, you know, a small melancholy. And there’s Christie Brinkley. And Whitney Houston and different girl, Elle [MacPherson], who is present besides a celebrated model. I met them each astatine the aforesaid time,” helium added.
At the time, Billy had a estimation for being a working-class rocker. Dating a supermodel changed that perception. “What I recovered was that I didn’t change, Christie didn’t change, but people’s absorption to america changed drastically: ‘Oh, well, helium joined this fabulously notorious model, and present he’s changed.'” helium told Rolling Stone in 1986. As if I joined her due to the fact that she was celebrated oregon wealthy.”
After a fewer years of dating, Christie and Billy married. They wed successful 1985 successful New York Harbor while aboard a 147-foot yacht. Later successful 1985, they welcomed daughter, Alexa Ray. However, the matrimony was implicit little than a decennary later. The mates divided successful 1994.
Christie is known for inspiring “This Is The Time” and his album, An Innocent Man. However, Christie’s person – supermodel Elle MacPherson – is credited with inspiring “Uptown Girl,” according to Biography. Billy was dating some Christie and Elle astatine the aforesaid time, but helium realized it wasn’t going to enactment retired for him. His bosom laic with Christie.
Elizabeth Weber
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Billy’s archetypal woman was Elizabeth Weber, and the narration is described arsenic “the costliest [he] ever had” by Biography. Billy met Elizabeth erstwhile she was joined to his bandmate, Jon Small, successful 1970. They began to person an affair, which yet resulted successful Elizabeth leaving some men erstwhile Jon recovered out. Billy, astatine property 21, became suicidal aft that, according to The New York Times.
Billy and Elizabeth reconciled, and they were joined successful 1973. They divorced successful 1982. However, earlier then, Billy had fixed Elizbeth’s brother, Frank Weber, a occupation moving for him. Billy would aboriginal observe that Frank allegedly stole tens of millions from him. He yet sued Weber for $30 cardinal successful compensatory damages and $60 cardinal successful punitive damages. Frank Weber declared bankruptcy and settled with Joel successful 1990. In 2014, Page Six ran a feature connected Fred Schruers’ biography, Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography, astir Billy’s ineligible and fiscal woes erstwhile it came to his costly divorces.
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