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July 24, 2025 – Their romance started off idyllic following a chance meeting on a Caribbean island, but the harsh throwaway comment Billy Joel uttered to wife Christie Brinkley amid his battle with alcoholism that later ended their 10-year marriage has now been revealed. Never more comfortable than with a keyboard at his fingertips, Billy was holidaying on the exclusive island of St Barts in 1983 when he happened upon a piano at the local bar.
Pink from sunburn and dressed in a garish Hawaiian shirt, his playing had started to attract a crowd at the same time as a nearby fashion photoshoot wrapped.
Billy suddenly found himself faced with the vision of not only supermodel Christie, but also her fellow supermodel Elle Macpherson, who was ‘draping this gorgeous body all over the place to try and get his attention,’ as Christie puts it.
A third young woman approached the piano, saying, ‘I can sing too,’ only for Billy, busy chatting up both Elle and Christie, to brush her off with a, ‘Hey, don’t bother me, kid.’
