Wait??
What???
2020 in a nutshell right here.
Former Genesis frontman Phil Collins met Orianne Cevey in 1994 when he was on tour in Switzerland. She was 21. He was 44. They got engaged in 1997, got married in ’99, had 2 kids, then split up in 2006, where she received a record-setting $46.7 million settlement.
Ten years later, the couple announced they were back together, living with the kids, and all, it seemed, was well.
Then in August, Cevey broke up with Collins again via text message, informing him that she had apparently gone to Vegas and married a businessman / musician 15 years her junior.
And now — according to a lawsuit filed by Collins — Cevey and her new husband, Tom Bates, are allegedly living in his $33 million dollar Miami beachfront mansion. And they’ve hired four armed guards to protect them. According to the Miami Herald:
The new couple are “threatening, implicitly and explicitly, to prolong their unlawful occupation of the property through force,” the filing states. “An injunction is urgently needed to end an armed occupation and takeover of the Phil Collins home by his ex girlfriend and her new husband, the defendants in the action.”
Lord have mercy.
Someone might get shot over this.
By the way the man she married was a male stripper.
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