If you’re interested in vintage gossip about supermodels, Gwyneth Paltrow and random billionaires, then this should interest you. Let’s step into the Way Back Machine. In and around 2008-09, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin were married, but it was widely believed that they were going through a major rough patch. Gwyneth spent a lot of time talking about how marriage meant that you had to put up with a lot of sh-t and she was in it for the long haul. And then she started spending A LOT of time with billionaire Jeffrey Soffer down in Miami. They were very, very friendly. She would stay at his Florida mansion whenever she was in town. Their affair was allegedly well-known among that set. Years later, Soffer married Elle MacPherson and Elle reportedly hated Gwyneth and all of those rumors. Many people wondered why Elle settled down with a guy who had that kind of reputation – a billionaire romancer of famous blondes – knowing that he seemed pretty shady in his private life. And guess what? Elle and Soffer are splitting up.

Elle Macpherson and Jeffrey Soffer have called it quits after nearly four years of marriage. A source close to Soffer confirmed the split to PEOPLE, saying simply, “Jeff and Elle have split.” The 53-year-old Australian supermodel and wellness expert, known as “The Body,” married the Miami-based billionaire real estate developer in July 2013 after getting engaged in March 2013. Their “day wedding” ceremony took place before about 15 guests – friends and family – inside a villa at the luxury Laucala Resort in Fiji.

The pair dated for two years before splitting in March 2012 and then rekindled their romance after Soffer was injured in a 2012 helicopter crash in the Bahamas. The Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model host was previously married to photographer Gilles Bensimon (Real Housewives star Kelly Bensimon‘s ex), and her two sons are from her relationship with ex-fiancé Arpad Busson.

Soffer had previously been linked to Gwyneth Paltrow. He “has a lot of power over women,” said a Palm Beach source after Paltrow’s split with Chris Martin in 2014. “He’s very seductive.” A Soffer family friend said the actress, who attended the reopening of the real estate mogul’s Fontainebleau hotel in 2008, “was staying at Jeff’s house for quite a while” around that time. “Something might have come from it had she been single. But she wasn’t.”

[From People]

I’m living for the shady way People Magazine introduced that Gwyneth information. At first they make it sound like Gwyneth might have been dealing with Soffer after her marriage fell apart. But no. Their alleged affair happened 2008-09, when she was with Chris Martin. As for Elle and Jeffrey’s split… OH NO I CANNOT BELIEVE IT. Said no one.

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