evicted four – Paulina Porizkova says she and Jeff Greenstein are being evicted from her apartment just four days before their Italy wedding, after she says their landlord refused a lease extension. The couple says they still have options, but the timing has upended their pl
Paulina Porizkova didn’t picture walking into her wedding with moving boxes instead of celebration.
On their podcast. “Twenty Good Summers. ” the model and her fiancé. Jeff Greenstein. described a housing crisis that has turned their final days before their wedding in Italy into a scramble. Porizkova said they are being evicted from her apartment—one she has lived in for six years—just four days before the ceremony.
“We are both over 60, and we are starting again,” Porizkova said. She framed the loss as more than a logistics problem. She said the apartment “has kept me safe,” and that it’s been a place where she “sort of grown up to be a woman.”
Her explanation was blunt about how it happened: she said their landlord would not grant an extension on the lease even though she described herself as “a great” tenant over the past six years. She said she “begged and pleaded. ” and that they still have to move out of the apartment four days before they get married in Italy.
Then comes the part that lands hardest—what happens after the wedding.
“And we also come back from our wedding, and we have nowhere to live,” she said.
Greenstein added that they didn’t plan for it. “Getting kicked out of this apartment four days before the wedding and coming back to nothing in New York is not what we planned,” he said.
For all the disruption, the couple said they aren’t facing the situation the way less privileged renters might. Porizkova told listeners they’re “very privileged” because they have other places to go.
She said she has a country house that she co-owns with her sons. Jonathan and Oliver. and that they can move there. even if it’s farther from New York City. She also said Jeff Greenstein still has a house in L.A. and that they are in the process of selling it—leaving that option open “for the time being.”.
“We cannot complain,” Porizkova said, calling it an “unexpected happenstance.” Greenstein echoed the sentiment with the wedding vow logic they’ll have to lean on as they “start over.”
“We are coming back to, for better or worse, literally for richer or poorer, right? We will be embarking on a new life together. It won’t look like the old one,” he said.
Earlier this week, the couple also turned to social media to share what’s happening. In their post. they wrote that they’re “getting kicked out of our apartment four days before our wedding. ” adding “thanks. Unsympathetic Landlord!” They said emails from fans helped prompt the podcast episode about “moving. ” including “when to move in together. how to harmonize lives and tastes. and all the emotions such transitions unleash.”.
Porizkova is 61. She was married to Ric Ocasek, the Cars frontman, for nearly 30 years before they divorced in 2018.
That personal history—paired with the uncertainty of their housing timeline—has been part of her public life in recent months. Last year, after sharing a video of herself crying on the fifth anniversary of Ocasek’s death, she described why she chose to show that vulnerability to fans.
In that post, she wrote: “Last week I posted a video of myself crying. It was the five-year anniversary of my husband’s death.” She said that in previous years she “pretended I was fine,” and that the day was difficult because she had “pulled it together.”
She continued, “For the benefit of my loved ones, I thought I had to act strong. To keep helming the ship. So no one but me would be afraid of drowning. The result of which. as I mentioned. was that everyone around me thought I was fine. and no one knew how hard my life was or how much I needed a hand.”.
Now, just four days before their wedding in Italy—and with a return to “nowhere to live” in New York—the couple’s planning is being forced into a new shape, with their “starting over” coming sooner than they expected.
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