Christie Brinkley has been married a few times over the years— four in fact — and she opened up about her past love life in her 2025 memoir, Uptown Girl. Her priority lies with her kids, Alexa Ray, Jack and Sailor, and she once revealed dating isn’t always the easiest at a certain age.
“It’s not that easy to meet people,” she told Us Weekly in 2019. “When you’re younger, you assume nobody’s married yet. But now you assume that everybody is married, so it’s hard to actually meet people.”
Even if Christie were to meet someone special, it sounds like she’s not looking to get hitched any time soon. “I don’t really see a reason for marriage,” she said to the outlet at the time. “Maybe there’s tax advantages or inheritance advantages or hospital advantages. But I always thought of doing it to have kids. And since I’m not having any more kids, why complicate things?”
Of course, this view on marriage comes after Christie said “I do” four times throughout her life. Keep reading to find out what influenced her latest take on marriage, as we meet her former husbands, below.
Christie was only 19 years old when she headed off to Paris to study art. While there in1973, she met and married French artist Jean-François Allaux. For such a young couple, they defied odds and stayed together for almost 8 years! The artist retired in 2019 from his position as Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, according to the school’s website.
Far and away, Christie’s most famous marriage was to pop rock icon Billy Joel. The pair had met in 1983 while they were both vacationing in St. Bart’s among the glitterati. With so much star power on the Caribbean island, the “Piano Man” hitmaker had to stand out and so he did by posing like his own album cover. “I tried to look like me on an album cover. I gave it every angle I could,” he told Rolling Stone in 1986. He said he then began to tickle the ivories. “The music was the key to the introduction,” he added. “She sat down and started singing, too.”
