As Billy Joel plans to perform at the 66th Yearly Grammy Grants, find out about his better half, Alexis Roderick, and the ladies the ‘Piano Man’ has adored – including Christie Brinkley!
In his life behind the keys and then some, Billy Joel has come to cherish a modest bunch of ladies simply how they are. From his most memorable marriage with Elizabeth Weber to his high-profile sentiment with Christie Brinkley to his experience as Katie Lee‘s (and his throw with Elle MacPherson), Billy has had a remarkable love life. Starting around 2024, he’s joyfully hitched to Alexis Roderick, an equestrian and previous Morgan Stanley chief, and she’ll be available to see Billy close out his set of experiences making run at Madison Square Nursery, when he plays his 150th show there in July 2024.
While his very long term residency at MSG might be reaching a conclusion, Billy actually has a great deal of invigorating what might be on the horizon. The “Piano Man” delivered his first single in quite a while “Betray” in February 2024. He’s likewise set to perform at the 2024 Grammy Grants on Sunday, February 4.
As Billy starts “Movin’ Out” of MSG, here’s a gander at the ladies he’s hitched.
Alexis Roderick
Alexis Roderick wedded Billy Joel in 2015, six years after they initially met. The two originally associated at an eatery in Huntington, New York, where they’d both gone with companions, per The New Yorker. At that point, she functioned as a gamble supervisor at Morgan Stanley. He got her number, got done with eating, and called her on the telephone from across the café to inquire as to whether she’d give him a ride home. She dropped him off at his home in Center Island on Lengthy Island’s North Shore, and he welcomed her in.
Billy initially proposed to play something for her. She declined. In any case, he did it. “It was like he was unable to not be ‘Billy Joel’ right now,” she told The New Yorker. Subsequently, she returned home (“I could have gotten a piece new,” concedes Billy.”) They started to date a while later, and in 2015, after Billy persuaded her to leave her place of employment on Money Road, they tied the knot.At the time, Alexis was pregnant with their most memorable kid. She brought forth Della Rose Joel in August 2015. In October 2017, she brought forth their subsequent youngster, Remy Anne Joel.
Katie Lee
Katie Lee (b. 1981) is a gourmet specialist, cookbook writer, and TV food pundit. She’s known for co-facilitating Food Organization’s The Kitchen and Ocean side Nibbles with Katie Lee on the Cooking Channel. She’s additionally showed up on Food Organization’s Halloween Baking Title.
Billy and Katie met in 2003. “I truly believed that Billy Joel had two hits,” she told Oprah.com. “I thought it was ‘Uptown Young lady’ and ‘Piano Man,’ and that was essentially it.” He was visiting New York City when he met Katie on the roof bar at The Penisula Inn.
“I [was] emerging from the washroom, and who do I nearly chance upon however him,” she says. Her companions requested that Billy go along with them for a beverage, and from that point, they went to supper. “We had this extraordinary supper, and we had pasta and white truffles, and he was sincerely attempting to dazzle me,” she said. “I’d say it was love at first nibble since we had such a decent feast, and we both love food, so that was the very thing that we fortified over.”
Billy took his action when they went to see Movin’ Out, the Broadway melodic in view of Billy’s music. “We go over, and he sings the last two tunes of the show — bounces in front of an audience, truly going maybe a little overboard,” she said. “I believed that he went around there each evening and sang the last two tunes of the show. I didn’t realize that it was for me!”
Notwithstanding the 32-year age hole, Billy’s young soul and Katie’s development made their sentiment labor for a couple of years at any rate. They wedded in 2004. After five years, they declared that they were isolating. “This choice is a consequence of much insightful thought. Billy and Katie stay caring companions with deference and regard for one another,” the couple said in a proclamation, per the New York Post.
Christie Brinkley
Maybe Billy’s most well known relationship was with Christie Brinkley. The couple met in 1983 when they were both traveling in St. Barts. “I was going through a partition and separation,” he told Rolling Stone in 1986. “I had quite recently completed a visit, and I was depleted. Paul Simon had leased a house down in a spot called St. Bart’s, this island in the Caribbean, and he said, ‘Look, it’s perfect down here. It’s genuine calm. Simply have some time off.’ It seemed like a smart thought. At the point when I was making the exchange flight — you go down to St. Martin, then, at that point, you take a worker plane — I saw Christie Brinkley. I perceived her right away. She was more gorgeous than she was in her photos — ‘Goodness, amazing, that is Christie Brinkley. I keep thinking about whether she knows who I am.’ So I did what I call a collection cover — I attempted to seem as though me on a collection cover. I gave it each point I could. She didn’t remember me from an opening in the wall.”
“And afterward I was on St. Bart’s, and I went to this bar in the PLM inn. They have a little piano there, and I had several beverages. I was feeling, you know, somewhat despairing. What’s more, there’s Christie Brinkley. What’s more, Whitney Houston and another young lady, Elle [MacPherson], who is currently likewise a popular model. I met them all simultaneously,” he added.
At that point, Billy had gained notoriety for being a common rocker. Dating a supermodel changed that insight. “What I found was that I didn’t change, Christie didn’t change, however individuals’ response to us changed definitely: ‘Gracious, indeed, he wedded this spectacularly famous model, and presently he’s transformed.'” he told Moving Stone in 1986. As though I wedded her since she was renowned or rich.”
Following a couple of long stretches of dating, Christie and Billy wedded. They marry in 1985 in New York Harbor while on board a 147-foot yacht. Later in 1985, they invited little girl, Alexa Ray. Be that as it may, the marriage was over under 10 years after the fact. The couple split in 1994.
Christie is known for moving “This Is The Time” and his collection, An Honest Man. Notwithstanding, Christie’s companion – supermodel Elle MacPherson – is credited with moving “Uptown Young lady,” as indicated by Biography. Billy was dating both Christie and Elle simultaneously, however he understood it won’t turn out for him. His heart lay with Christie.
Elizabeth Weber
Billy’s most memorable spouse was Elizabeth Weber, and the relationship is portrayed as “the costliest [he] at any point had” by Biography. Billy met Elizabeth when she was hitched to his bandmate, Jon Small, in 1970. They started to take part in an extramarital entanglements, which in the end brought about Elizabeth leaving the two men once Jon found out. Billy, at age 21, became self-destructive from that point forward, as indicated by The New York Times.
Billy and Elizabeth accommodated, and they were hitched in 1973. They separated in 1982. Notwithstanding, before then, Billy had given Elizbeth’s sibling, Frank Weber, a task working for him. Billy would later find that Straight to the point purportedly took many millions from him. He at last sued Weber for $30 million in compensatory harms and $60 million in correctional harms. Straight to the point Weber opted for non-payment and settled with Joel in 1990. In 2014, Page Six ran a feature on Fred Schruers‘ life story, Billy Joel: The Conclusive Memoir, about Billy’s legitimate and monetary hardships when it came to his expensive separations.
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