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Daily Mail
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Sean Avery finally breaks silence on Mary-Kate Olsen 'romance'... as he requests to dismiss restraining order filed by his ex
Former New York Rangers star Sean Avery has broken his silence on the rumors surrounding his relationship with Mary-Kate Olsen. Sean, 45, and Mary-Kate, 39, were rumored to be dating in the spring of 2024 when they were pictured spending time together in the Hamptons. The duo was spotted strolling around Amagansett as they stopped by her store, The Row, during a rare sighting of the fashion designer. People magazine reported at the time that they 'have known one another for years' with a source at the time insisting that were 'just friends.' They were believed to have had a 'fling' back in 2007. Now, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Sean has revealed what really went down between him and Ashley Olsen 's twin sister. 'We've been friends for 20 years. That's a long time relationship. We were like kids in New York growing up together,' he said. After laughing off romance rumors, he joked: 'I mean, that's the beauty of social media now and the algorithm. And I embrace all of that because anything that kicked that algo, you got to get that algorithm going. That's the name of the game. 'Of course people are always going to speculate, especially with her. She's an icon.' Sean went on to praise Mary-Kate's career, which began when she was a child star on Full House. 'Well, what I will say is that, I mean, what an incredible example of somebody that has reinvented herself many times,' he said. 'She's one of the OGs and the two of them (her and Ashley), what they've done with their career under the scrutiny, like, as an athlete, as an artist, as an actor, I have nothing... I mean, the two of them are incredible.' Their reunion last year came four years after the former actress split from her ex-husband Olivier Sarkozy, 56, and two years after Sean's wife Hilary Rhoda, 38, filed for divorce. Mary-Kate tied the knot with Sarkozy — who is the half-brother of Nicolas Sarkozy, the former President of France — in 2015. She filed for divorce in April 2020. It was finalized in January 2021. Although they never had children of their own, Mary-Kate had become stepmother to the businessman's two kids, Margot and Julien, whom he has with his first wife Charlotte Bernard. Sean, for his part, was married to Hilary for seven years before they split. They have a five-year-old son named Nash. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit star filed for divorce from the ex-pro athlete in July 2022 and, a few months later, requested a temporary restraining order against him. The TRO had turned into a permanent one in September 2023 and was ordered by a judge to be in place for three years, meaning it would expire in September 2026. However, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Mail, Sean had filed a request to dismiss the restraining order on Monday, August 11. The reason for the dismissal noted in the filing read: 'Mom and dad have reconciled... 'Hilary and Sean have been living together for over a year.' Speaking to the Daily Mail three days prior on August 8 he revealed: 'Me and Hilary are together. We're raising Nash. Everything's great. 'That's the beauty of... it's like artistic life is sort of mirroring - all these different things happen. You grow, you learn, and your perspective changes on everything, especially when you have kids. That changes everything, but everything's great.' He continued: 'We're parenting, we're together. We're getting it done.' Sean, who was speaking at his book signing at Barnes & Noble in Bridgehampton, New York, insisted they 'never got divorced.' According to court records, their divorce action is still pending, and has not been dismissed yet. He confessed to the Daily Mail: 'It's a little bit autobiographical, 100 percent. 'I mean, I think that the book is inside baseball and maybe what happens behind the scenes, like, young guys making a lot of money that are famous and they're having quite a bit of fun.' 'It's not all training and sleep - maybe more-so nowadays because the business is becoming a lot bigger in sports.' He continued: 'Everybody needs to read this book because this book is going to break open the romance category. No romance novel has ever been written this way. 'This is going to change the genre... That's part of the reason why I wrote it, was because when I read one, I said, "No, this is not what women are reading. We have to elevate this. We've got to turn it up."' His book tour comes after he spent 'months' filming Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which is a 'big top secret' film. The 2026 adaptation also stars Charlize Theron, Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.
Irish Times
09-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
The ‘exclusive' Hamptons is a glorified cattle mart with mansions
Jackson Pollock was not the first artist to flee the mayhem of the city to the far end of the Hamptons and rugged Montauk – Winslow Homer and his crowd were there with easel and paint in the late 1800s. But the cottage near Amagansett provoked an antic, celebrated burst of creativity that catapulted Pollock into the celebrity glare until he crashed his car while drunk on a curve on Springs Fireplace Road and was killed in August 1956. The modest house Pollock shared with his wife and fellow artist, Lee Krasner, now exists as an extraordinary, breathing museum, as if the couple stepped and might return any time. When they moved there the place lacked basic amenities, which was part of the point. The home John Steinbeck shared with his third wife, Elaine, who lived until 2003, is now a writer's centre in Sag Harbour. Fifty or sixty years ago the narrow strip of land jutting into the Atlantic was teeming with artists and writers. And that became part of the attraction for the new-money set who can buy anything and everything except for creative imagination and so arrive to be close to it. The plebeian way to reach Montauk Long Island Rail Road is a $20 fare from Penn Station followed by a 2½-hour crawl through the storied, distinctive Hampton townships into which New York's old society and nouveau riche have been pouring their money for well over a century. In high season travelling by road is not much faster, and so the sight and sound of sea planes and helicopters has become more common. John Steinbeck and his third wife, Elaine, at their Sag Harbor cottage in 1962. Photograph: Bettmann Archive 'Exclusive' is the word most commonly attributed to the Hamptons even though the briefest visit here makes it apparent that it's a glorified cattle mart with mansions and painstakingly composed wine lists in high season. There are too many humans. READ MORE Montauk earned its nickname, The End, through its geographical extremity, right at the eastern tip of Long Island, where the land mass narrows to narrow single forks, as though giving two fingers to Ireland. And there is a familiarity about Montauk's landscape. On Wednesday the sky was overcast and salty-aired and had that about-to-rain summer melancholy of Gaeltacht summer evenings. The arriving crowd in Montauk was mainly young and sceneish and almost, well, exclusively white. The sturdy, tasteful blue sign announcing the town itself declares that it was settled in 1686, and in racial profile it hasn't changed much since. The villages are run by separate councils, which try to impose regulations and prohibitions to preserve the integrity of an area that is changing at pace. Census reports showed that the populations of the prestige East Hampton and Southampton locations jumped by 35 per cent and 22 per cent respectively in little over a decade. The summer population in these villages can multiply by five, from the winter lows of 30,000, when the windows are shuttered and a skeleton staff maintains the society homes through the bleak months. Those unable to afford to buy needn't fret; July rental listings in Southampton ranged from $75,000 to $125,000. And the hordes keep coming. For years Montauk, although never lacking for wealth, preserved its surf and clam-shack carefreeness by virtue of its geography. It was just that bit too far over from Manhattan. But the fintech titans need to conquer if not new worlds then at least new dinner reservations and panoramic vistas. Last August, Mark Vandavelde and Sujeet Indap of the Financial Times wrote a sad and wonderful piece under the headline: 'A billionaire bought a lobster shack in the Hamptons. Then the trouble began.' It contains a perfect paragraph describing the social and geographical sections of the entire preposterous summer charade. 'Only 40 miles separate the East End of Long Island from the Shinnecock Canal, where the Hamptons begin, but the drive on NY State-Route 27 can easily take two hours. Making it means passing through an elaborate social order etched on to this congested spit of sand. The road begins just after Westhampton, a suburb of million dollar houses that is also known as Wronghampton, because it is on the cheaper side of the canal. It passes through Southampton, were magnificent coastal estates built by New York's earliest English settlers have long since been carved up to cater to the Wall Street nouveau riche (Rowan paid $27 million for a beachfront 'cottage' here, on Gin Lane). Next comes Bridgehampton, with Long Island's only Kmart. Then showy East Hampton, home to Jerry Seinfeld and Steven Spielberg. After Amagansett, where Sarah Jessica Parker spends her summer, lies what is sometimes called the anti-Hampton, a hamlet of rickety wooden houses that wants no part of this gilded hierarchy. This is Montauk.' Ostensibly, it was an account of how Marc Rowan, the billionaire private equity titan, bought the beloved Duryea's fish shack, a Montauk fixture since the 1920s which dished up seafood and coleslaw on Styrostyrofoames. It was reimagined as a destination spot: the piece reports that Jay-Z and Beyoncé sometimes moor their yacht at the refurbished dock. It could also be read as a metaphor for how wealth, it all its guises, eyes and covets authenticity and gobbles it up. All well until the realisation comes, too late, that there is nothing left.
Daily Mail
28-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Inside Gwyneth Paltrow's Hamptons home kitchen as fans gush over her unusual design choices
Gwyneth Paltrow has several luxurious properties under her belt but one has a very special place in her heart - particularly over the summer months. Paltrow, 52, purchased her coastal home in the Hamptons for $5.4 million with her ex-husband, Coldplay front man Chris Martin, in 2006. The expansive 7,000 square foot property is located in Amagansett and the Goop founder has often spoken fondly of her slice of Long Island paradise. 'I grew up coming out here and one of the things I love about it it that we have have a really robust vegetable garden, beautiful tomatoes, jalapenos, and cucumber,' Paltrow gushed in a previous Instagram video. Paltrow's expansive Amagansett home consists of five bedrooms, seven and a half bathrooms and - importantly for the enthusiastic cook who is a fan of clean living - a gorgeous kitchen. Whilst the mom of Apple, 21, and Moses, 19, hasn't given a full tour of her beloved home, she has been known to host events in her stunning backyard as well as regularly sharing her 'Boyfriend Breakfast' videos to social media - in which she cooks up a storm for husband Brad Falchuk. The actress, who also owns a $30 million home in Montecito, California, tends to stick to filming cooking content in her light-filled kitchen, which she describes as 'the focal point' of the household. 'Whether it's a dinner or an afternoon snack for the kids, the happiest moments of the day are centered around food,' Paltrow shared in post to Instagram, previously announcing her partnership with luxury appliance brand Monogram. The actress, who also owns a $30 million home in Montecito, California, tends to stick to filming cooking content in her light-filled kitchen, which she describes as 'the focal point' of the household '[Monogram] elevate kitchen design to an entirely new level, and the gorgeous aesthetic perfectly complements the design of any home,' she continued, adding the range is the 'best' she has ever cooked on. In addition to her near professional-grade kitchen, Paltrow also has a sprawling backyard which boasts a swimming pool, vegetable garden and spa-worthy cold plunge. In 2018, four years after her split with Martin, Paltrow married producer Falchuk in the backyard. They exchanged vows near a tree where her father's ashes were buried. And fans have increasingly begun to take notice of the style icons' impressive kitchen, commenting on state-of-the art appliances and nifty gadgets in her recent uploads. Most recently, it was the island-sized cutting board that truly mesmerized fans. 'I like that her whole island is a cutting board,' one fan observed most recently, pointing out her convenient bench which Paltrow chops directly on to. 'What size cutting board do you want? An island sized one,' another joked. 'The fact her whole table is also a cutting board… GENIUS,' some one else observed. Below, FEMAIL has taken a look at Paltrow's impressive kitchen features as fans continue to gush over her unusual design choices. Le Creuset Signature Skillet: $250 The Le Creuset skillet comes in a whopping 28 different colors and two sizes - the nine inch and the 10.25 inch. The enameled cast iron pan described on the website as a 'versatile kitchen essential' is designed for searing, sautéing and stir-frying, with Paltrow appearing to have the tool in light green. It will set buyers back anywhere between $136 to $250, depending on size. GE Monogram 30' Fully Integrated Wine Sommelier: $10,400 Paltrow has Monogram's wine sommelier in both of her kitchens, as per Homes and Gardens. In Instagram videos shared to her social media accounts, it looks as though her Hampton's home has the fridge lower to the ground. The Goop founder appears to be making full use of it - with it often seen fully stocked with an array of wines. The recommended retail price is $10,400. GE Monogram 48' Professional Range: $11,600 Paltrow uses her range a lot for her popular 'boyfriend breakfasts' - so it makes sense she has a six-burner one. The stainless steel appliance has gas burners and is perfect for those with a busy lifestyle - with WiFi monitoring and remote control with the SmartHQ app as well as an LCD display. In an interview with Food and Wine, Partlow also gushed over the brass details, saying it 'works perfectly' and is 'so reliable.' The standard model comes in at a whopping $11,600. Monogram 30' Hearth Oven: $9,000 The all-electric oven, with a recommended retail price of $9,000, is reportedly one of Paltrow's favorites, said to 'capture the performance of a traditional coal-and-wood burning stove.' 'I think of it like a wood-burning oven, but without the hassle,' the actress quipped in a video showing her making a dish in the oven. Monogram Statement 30' Steam Oven: $5,100 In addition to her professional range and hearth oven, Paltrow also has a steam oven that has a standard price tag of $5,100. The appliance is described as a 'healthy method' of cooking helps foods to better retain their flavor, color and nutritional value. Gaggenau 200 Series Built-In Fully Automatic Coffee Machine: $4,000 Paltrow appears to have a Gaggenau in-built coffee machine in her Amagansett kitchen, often spotted behind her in her videos to social media. While the appliance that looks to be Paltrow's exact model is no longer available, the resale price online ranges from $3,200 to $4,000. With all the cooking the Paltrow does for her family, it's not surprising she needs a dishwasher! While the exact model isn't known, her partnership with the luxury company ensures her dishes are always clean and ready for another meal. Based off the star's videos from her Amagansett home, she has opted for a stainless steel one. They retail anywhere between $2,000 and $2,500. Monogram Forge Heated Ice Press: $999 A mocktail in the summer isn't complete without a single piece spherical ice - at least according to Paltrow. She gushed over her $999 heated ice press while making a garden-inspired mocktail, declaring it 'elevates' the drink.
Bloomberg
01-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
In the Hamptons, a $20 Celebrity Chef Smoothie Gets a VIP Line
It's been a relatively quiet start to summer on the Hamptons hospitality scene. There's been nothing like the fireworks that accompanied the aborted launch of the private members club Zero Bond in East Hampton. Into the void steps celebrity chef Jeremy Fall. On July 2 the Los Angeles-born, social-media-savvy cook and restaurateur will open Drugstore, a summer-long pop-up in Jack's Stir Brew Coffee on Montauk Highway in Amagansett. His menu will feature a curated list of salads and sandwiches, but the most high-profile item will unquestionably be the vibrantly colored Velvet Rope smoothie, which goes for $20 even before add-ins. And that's not the only thing that stands out about the bold purple-and-chocolate-brown swirled beverage.
Vogue
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
In Galerie Sardine, a New Idea of What the Art Gallery Can Be
Last summer I kept getting emails about a new venue called Galerie Sardine. Who, I wondered, would want to name a gallery after a very small fish that travels in schools and is packed tightly in flat tins? The artist Joe Bradley and his irrepressible wife, Valentina Akerman, that's who. 'You can take it with you,' Akerman says, when I visit them in Bradley's vast Long Island City studio. 'It's also not a fancy fish, and we like that.' Neither of them had ever run an art gallery before, but they took over a 1701 farmhouse on Main Street in Amagansett, at the eastern end of Long Island, and put on several shows that attracted throngs of local and far-flung art lovers, including the biggest fish in the art world, Larry Gagosian, whose summer house is in Amagansett. 'Joe and I have been collaborating ever since we met,' Akerman tells me. Their backgrounds could hardly be more different. Akerman, dark-haired and vivacious, is from Colombia, born and brought up in Bogotá. Bradley, quieter but just as playful, grew up in a family of nine children (seven of them, not including Joe, were adopted) in the scenic little beach town of Kittery, Maine. His father was an emergency room doctor. Her now retired father was a professor of economics at the National University of Colombia and wrote a Sunday newspaper editorial on politics. 'He is an incredibly luminous person who's engaged with the world and loves art and music and everything else,' she tells me. 'My decibel of life comes from my father, and I can talk with him about anything.' Her mother, now an author, was a Freudian therapist who worked with children and adolescents. 'My schoolmates were scared of her.' They didn't want to go to her house because they thought she was 'like a witch,' Akerman says. 'She's mysterious and a bit cold and a bit alluring all at once.' ('She's a very glamorous woman,' Joe adds.) Akerman's parents divorced when she was 16, and her mother began writing books about her childhood in El Chocó, an extremely remote jungle on the Pacific coast of Colombia. Akerman studied architecture, came to New York to get her master's at Columbia University, then practiced for a few years at the high-powered Davis Brody Bond architectural firm in New York, but withdrew after she was diagnosed with metastatic thyroid cancer. She was working as a freelance art director when Bradley came into her life. Bradley's childhood love of drawing didn't fade as he grew up. He devoured underground comic books—R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, 'that sort of thing'—and pored over art books on Picasso, Matisse, Miró, Calder, Warhol, and Lichtenstein in Kittery's public library, and also spent time at the Portland Museum. 'But it wasn't until I got to the Rhode Island School of Design that I was bitten by the painting bug, and started seeing. All of a sudden, I was exposed to all of art history.' A fixation on a small Cézanne landscape, 'a ratty little painting' called On the Banks of a River (ca. 1904-1905) at the RISD Museum, struck him as 'kind of abject and punk rock,' and gave him the feeling 'not that I could understand it, but that I could read it.' (Bradley was once the lead singer of a punk band called Cheeseburger.) His career was just beginning when he and Akerman got together. His riotously colored paintings were already drawing attention—he had a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art's PS1 in 2006, seven years after he graduated from RISD. Roberta Smith of The New York Times described his early work as 'ironic, anti-painting paintings…post-conceptual and challenging.' He has had New York galleries ever since—first the Canada gallery, then Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Gagosian, Petzel, and, since 2023, David Zwirner gallery. The vibrant new paintings all around us in his Long Island City studio are on view this summer, at Zwirner's London outpost. Akerman and Bradley met in the early 2000s at a loft party in Williamsburg. She had to run to a dinner, but the few minutes they had together intrigued her. 'It was a classic love-at-first-sight situation for me,' Bradley says. 'Valentina had this aura, a real glow about her, and I was totally attracted immediately.' They met again three days later, by chance, at an opening in Chelsea, and that was it. 'From that night on, we were never apart,' Akerman says. 'We were just magnetically together.' They married in the early aughts and had Leif, the first of four children, shortly thereafter. Basil, Alma, and Nova came along at five-year intervals.
