Inside Paulina Porizkova’s Italian wedding: Photos finally surface amid juicy revelations about unorthodox bridal gown, Taylor Swift link… and WILD drug confession at reception
Daily Mail’s wedding photos have emerged, which raise the curtain on the joyful ceremony organized by Paulina Porizkova in Italy.
The 61-year-old supermodel found love in 2023 with Friends alum and screenwriter Jeff Greenstein, who is also the showrunner of Will & Grace.
They celebrated their marriage at a 19th-century Moorish Revival hotel called Villa Crespi in Orta San Giulio, a picturesque town at the foot of the Alps.
Porizkova wore an ethereal custom Chloe Mendel Corgan gown in a pale gray tone that the bride explained was supposed to be “kind of colorless.” Vogue.
One particularly heartwarming photo showed Porizkova and Greenstein enjoying being lifted into the air on chairs, a Jewish wedding tradition.
Another was the image of the happy couple, surrounded by their guests, joyfully walking along the cobblestone garden path surrounded by fences.
Daily Mail’s wedding photos have emerged, revealing the curtain of Paulina Porizkova’s joyful ceremony in Italy.
One particularly heartwarming photo showed Porizkova and Greenstein enjoying being lifted into the air on chairs, a Jewish wedding tradition.
The 61-year-old supermodel found love in 2023 with Friends alum and screenwriter Jeff Greenstein, who is also the showrunner of Will & Grace.
The photos were provided to the Daily Mail by the groom’s friend and podcast co-host Gabe Sachs, who co-wrote the 2010 hit movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
During the outdoor ceremony, where guests enjoyed a dazzling view of Lake Orta, Porizkova was spotted walking down the aisle towards her pregnant groom.
As they headed towards the hotel for the reception, Greenstein was seen cutting the four-tiered cake and Porizkova was seen toasting her loved ones.
Sachs also gave the Daily Mail a few behind-the-scenes images, including a candid photo of Porizkova with foil applied to her face for her pre-wedding skincare regimen.
Greenstein and Porizkova wed in a star-studded wedding on July 3, the same day as Taylor Swift’s 1,000-person wedding to Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden.
Following her wedding in Italy, Porizkova explained that the reason she gave up the white wedding dress was ‘not because of its connotations of virginity, but rather because I wore a lot of white wedding dresses as a model.’
His aim was to achieve a type of colorlessness that was ‘inexpressible and difficult to understand’, ‘so that you cannot say ‘she was wearing a yellow dress’ or ‘she was wearing a pink dress’.’
Porizkova said, “At the wedding reception, one of our guests came up to me and said, ‘I’ve been taking ketamine recreationally lately, and your dress is the color of the element.’ It means a color that is beyond color, like water, an indescribable color. I think I got what I wanted!’
Porizkova was photographed walking down the aisle towards her pregnant groom during the outdoor ceremony, where guests enjoyed a dazzling view of Lake Orta.
When they entered the hotel for the reception, Greenstein was seen cutting the four-tiered cake and Porizkova was seen toasting her loved ones.
Porizkova wore an ethereal custom Chloe Mendel Corgan gown in a pale gray tone, which the bride explained via Vogue was meant to be “kind of colorless.”
Porizkova was photographed walking down the aisle towards her pregnant groom during the outdoor ceremony, where guests enjoyed a dazzling view of Lake Orta.
They celebrated their marriage at a 19th-century Moorish Revival hotel called Villa Crespi in Orta San Giulio, a picturesque town at the foot of the Alps.
Porizkova gave up the white wedding dress ‘not because of its virginal connotations, but rather because I wore a lot of white wedding dresses as a model’
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The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue icon was previously married to The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek in 1989, becoming his third wife.
They separated in 2017 but were still in the midst of divorce proceedings when he died two years later, aged 75, while recovering from cancer surgery.
Porizkova, who had provided care for him during his recovery and found his body, later discovered that he had cruelly excluded her and their two sons from his will, depriving him of even his own earnings and triggering a bitter legal battle.
He fought a legal battle and eventually received a third of the property, which he described to Vanity Fair as ‘what was mine under New York state law.’
As a result of his financial troubles, he was forced to sell the $10 million mansion in Gramercy Park where he found Ocasek’s body.
Last month, she and Greenstein explained that the reason they made their union legally binding was so they could make medical decisions for each other.
“The only reason I’m marrying you is so I have the right to unplug you,” Porizkova told Greenstein on the couple’s podcast Twenty Beautiful Summers.
Sachs also gave the Daily Mail behind-the-scenes footage, such as a candid photo of Porizkova with foil on her face for her pre-wedding facial.
Greenstein and Porizkova tied the knot on July 3, the same day as the star-studded juggernaut of Taylor Swift’s wedding to Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden.
She explained that after her experience with Ocasek, she became disillusioned with the ‘unequal’ institution and had previously given up on marriage.
Porizkova said she would ‘absolutely be happy to be engaged for the next 20 years’ but that she and Greenstein are taking the next step to ensure spouses have the same rights to each other’s end-of-life care.
The Czech supermodel described his logic as ‘romantic’ and reminded him of Cathy and Heathcliff at the intersection of love and death in Wuthering Heights.
Greenstein agreed, saying that by marrying legally ‘you are placing your ultimate belief, your ultimate destiny, in the hands of your partner.’ he said.
In an Instagram video promoting the episode, Porizkova said she and Greenstein will explain why two “experienced people” who have “failed badly at this before” would be “stupid” enough to make another move on marriage.
Days before the wedding they They were evicted from their New York apartment after Porizkova’s landlord rejected her request for a lease extension.
Porizkova rose to international fame during her childhood when her refugee parents mounted a highly publicized bid to get her out of their homeland of Czechoslovakia, which was then under Soviet control in the shadow of the Cold War.
Porizkova was photographed with Ocasek at his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2018, a year after their split and a year before his death.
After the Prague Spring of 1968, her mother and father fled to Sweden, leaving three-year-old Porizkova at home with her grandmother.
The couple’s efforts to get their daughter out from behind the Iron Curtain, despite opposition from communist authorities, caused a media sensation.
At one point Porizkova’s pregnant mother sneaked back to Czechoslovakia and tried to kidnap her, but she was caught and remained under house arrest for three years.
After the family was finally allowed to reunite in Sweden – thanks in part to the prime minister’s intervention – Porizkova was discovered as a model at the age of 13, and made news for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1983 at the age of 18.
When she was 19, she began her romance with Ric Ocasek, whom she married at 22 and with whom she welcomed sons Jonathan, 32, and Oliver, 27.
After his death, she recalled feeling “invisible” and “boring” throughout their unhappy relationship because her attempts to talk to Ocasek were met with yawns.
In a video for StyleLikeU’s series, he revealed that he felt his sexual attraction to her diminish as he moved towards the middle of his life. Challenging age discrimination.
“We had been together my whole life, since I was 19, and suddenly it seemed like he didn’t find me attractive anymore,” Porizkova said.
‘I started to feel like I was a coffee table; Something you lay on and bang on in the middle of the night but pay no attention to anything else.’
Porizkova became one of the top models of the 1980s after her refugee parents made a successful attempt to get her out of then-communist Czechoslovakia.
When she requested a separation, she hoped that it would wake her husband and provoke him to ‘fight’ for the marriage, but that he would reply ‘coldly’: ‘Looks like you’ve made up your mind, so whatever.’
She fled the room in tears and a separation began, but he remained in love with her throughout their divorce proceedings and cared for her after her cancer surgery.
While she was bringing him his morning coffee during his recovery, he discovered her dead in their Manhattan townhouse.
Porizkova was later confronted with the revelation that Ocasek, who rejected her proposal for a prenuptial agreement decades ago, had cut her and her sons out of his will, depriving her of even the money she had earned as a model.
He fought a legal battle and eventually received a third of the property, which he described as ‘what is mine under the laws of the state of New York.’ Vanity Fair.
As a result of his financial troubles, he was forced to sell the $10 million mansion in Gramercy Park where he found Ocasek’s body.
