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Paul Simon’s daughter is mad at Richard Gere for selling her childhood home

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date July 14, 2025

Richard Gere was part of the celebrity exodus of 2024, only his move wasn’t a direct response to the election. His wife, Alejandra Silva, is from Spain, and they were already planning to relocate to be closer to her family. At the time Gere said of his wife, “she gave me about seven years here, so we’re going to spend some years in Madrid with her family.” That’s a lovely, fair sentiment, and makes me think of another husband who’s overdue to spend 20 years in Slovenia. Anyway, what I didn’t realize was that the Connecticut home Gere sold for just under $11 million last October, was previously owned by Paul Simon. I also didn’t realize that Gere and his family didn’t ever really move in? At least that’s what Simon’s daughter Lulu alleges, along with the fact that Gere’s 2024 sale of the home to developers was a violation of the conditions of Gere’s 2022 purchase of the property. Lulu is making no bones about her feelings on how Gere has taken care of (or not) her childhood home:

“Just in case anyone was wondering if I still hate Richard Gere — I do!” Simon wrote in an Instagram story posted on Tuesday.

The singer, 30, claimed that the Golden Globe-winning star vowed to “take care” of the 31.8-acre estate in New Canaan as part of the conditions when he purchased the mansion in 2022.

“He bought my childhood home,” Simon said. “Promised he would take care of the land as [a] condition of his purchase. Proceeded to never actually move in & just sold it to a developer as 9 separate plots.”

The daughter of the Simon & Garfunkel hitmaker didn’t go into details about the alleged agreement.

Lulu, who has just over 2.5K monthly listeners on Spotify, continued her social media rant when she posted an edited photo that showed her old childhood pets surrounding an image of Gere.

“I hope my dead pets buried in that backyard haunt you until you descend into a slow and unrelenting madness,” Simon captioned the post.

…Both the 16-time Grammy winner Paul Simon and Gere, 75, took a loss during their separate sales of the 8,800-square-foot mansion.

The “Sound of Silence” singer and his wife, singer Edie Brickell, bought the home where he “recorded many of his hit albums” for $16.5 million in 2002, according to Town & Country.

In 2019, the couple tried to sell the Georgian-style estate for $13.9 million. The asking price fluctuated for three years until the “Chicago” star purchased the estate for $10.8 million in 2022, The Post reported.

The main home has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, three powder rooms and multiple fireplaces.

The property also featured a separate 2,400-square-foot guest house, a pond, a pool and a courtyard.

Gere had planned to turn a portion of the property into a farm, according to Realtor.

After owning the property for only two years, Gere and his wife, Alejandra, took a slight loss on the property and sold the house in an off-market deal to real estate developers for $10.75 million in October 2024.

[From NY Post]

If taking care of the estate and not selling to developers really were conditions of the 2022 sale to Gere, I have a couple questions: were these conditions verbal or in writing, and if in writing, then why aren’t the Simons suing? Ultimately, as this case shows, I think it’s hard to retain any control or say in a home… that you’ve sold. It’s not yours anymore! On the other hand, homes, especially childhood ones, are emotional places. So what do we think — is this righteous indignation on Lulu’s part, or her just not letting go? I never really got upset when my parents sold the house I grew up in, but that might have been because they were so upset over the fallout of the sale that I felt I had to keep my sh-t together so at least one of us was steady. (Here’s a tip they learned the hard way: don’t hire your realtor from the line you’re standing on to order a cheeseburger. I’m not even joking.) I gotta hand it to Lulu, though, cause “I hope my dead pets buried in that backyard haunt you until you descend into a slow and unrelenting madness,” is an EPIC burn. Not quite “Because a vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping,” but a biting poetry of its own, nonetheless.

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Paul Simon on his hearing loss: ‘I haven’t accepted it entirely’

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date September 15, 2023

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Paul Simon was at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) over the weekend to premiere In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, a documentary by Alex Gibney. I know Gibney for his hard hitting docs like Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Crime of the Century (about the opioid crisis). But somehow I’ve missed that he’s also directed music documentaries on The Eagles, James Brown, and Frank Sinatra. And now, of course, Paul Simon. Simon and Gibney participated in a Q&A while at TIFF, where Simon spoke candidly about his hearing loss:

Paul Simon may not yet have come to terms with the hearing loss in his left ear, but he is “beginning to.” The 81-year-old singer-songwriter talked about his ailment and ability to continue performing at a post-screening Q&A for In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday.

In the panel discussion alongside documentary director Alex Gibney, Simon told the audience “I haven’t accepted it entirely, but I’m beginning to,” when asked about his hearing loss.

“I play the guitar every day,” he added. “It’s the instrument that allows me to express myself creatively. But it’s also where I go for solace. If I’m feeling… ‘whatever.’ So it’s a very crucial thing to me. You know, something happens to you when you have some sort of disability that changes your awareness or changes how you interact with life.”

According to Simon there has been no improvement in his left ear, which has made a return to performing a challenge. “Usually when I finished an album I went out and toured with it, and then I have the opportunity to really investigate the piece. And then it evolves to another standard, and goes further,” he said. “Although a week from now I’m going to try and work with two guitarists who will play the parts that I played on the record, and see if I can sing the piece. I’m not sure how I can integrate my voice with the guitars.”

His ailment has not however kept Simon from composing new music. “I wrote a new song called ‘When I Learned to Play Guitar,’ but I don’t know if I’ll ever do anything with it,” he said at the TIFF premiere.

In May, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame artist, half of American folk duo Simon & Garfunkel, opened up about his hearing loss during an interview with the Times. Simon said his hearing loss happened while he was penning music for his new album, Seven Psalms. “Quite suddenly, I lost most of the hearing in my left ear, and nobody has an explanation for it,” he said. “So everything became more difficult.”

[From Yahoo! Entertainment]

Hearing loss among musicians is so prevalent, for obvious reasons. In the last couple years Dave Grohl and Huey Lewis have shared their hearing loss experiences, each one with his own devastating details. I started out thinking that it must be even more heartbreaking for a performer to lose a sense so innately tied to their craft, given the odds stacked against anyone trying to make it in the arts. But I was wrong about that, it’s not being a performer that makes the loss more intense. It’s being anyone who absolutely loves what they do being forced to watch it slipping away. My father was not in the arts, he was an academic. When he had a stroke last winter, it was painful for all of us, including him, to see how his mind was altered. He knew he’d lost the capacity to continue his work, and I think that realization is what drove him to let go. It was a mentality of “who am I if I can’t work anymore?” We lost him two weeks ago, on his 81st birthday. I couldn’t write the day he died, but I came back the day after. (Don’t worry, I took more than a week off from my day job.) I love being sassy here with you, and I figure the best way I can honor my father is to keep working on what I love doing. It’s not his fault that that happens to be sarcasm and laughing at public displays of stupidity.

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Paul Simon And Wife Arrested For Disorderly Conduct

Post author By celebrityabout
Post date April 29, 2014

Well this is strange. Legendary singer/songwriter Paul Simon, was arrested, along with his wife, Edie Brickell, for getting into a serious fight. They were released on Sunday and appeared in court Monday, all smiles. From CNN:

Singer-songwriter Paul Simon said Monday that he and wife Edie Brickell “had an argument” before they were arrested Saturday.

Brickell, in a statement sent to CNN by her lawyer, said she started it.

“I got my feelings hurt and I picked a fight with my husband,” Brickell said. “The police called it disorderly. Thank God it’s orderly now”

Simon and Brickell were arrested on disorderly conduct charges by police investigating a family dispute at their New Canaan, Connecticut, home Saturday night, according to police. “Investigating officers gathered information and found probable cause to arrest” Simon, 72, and Brickell, 47, a police statement said.

The couple was released from custody Sunday morning.

They held hands when appearing before a judge in the Norwalk Superior Court Monday.

“Edie and I are fine,” Simon said. “We’re going to see our son’s baseball game this afternoon.”

Paul Simon is one of the last people I would ever think of as being “disorderly”. He seems so goddamn gentle.

Whatever is going on between the two of them, I really hope it’s okay. Her phrasing of the events sounds a little odd to me.

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