Paul Simon’s Daughter Criticizes Richard Gere Over Residence Sale
Paul Simon’s daughter is just not proud of Richard Gere.
Lulu Simon, 30, took to her Instagram Tales on Tuesday, July 8, to slam the actor, 75, for promoting her childhood dwelling to real-estate builders.
“JUST IN CASE ANYONE WAS WONDERING IF I STILL HATE RICHARD GERE – I DO!” Lulu, a musician like her father, posted in her Tales, per Folks.
She claimed, in all caps: “HE BOUGHT MY CHILDHOOD HOME. PROMISED HE WOULD TAKE CARE OF THE LAND AS CONDITION OF HIS PURCHASE. PROCEEDED TO NEVER ACTUALLY MOVE IN & JUST SOLD IT TO A DEVELOPER AS 9 SEPARATE PLOTS :).”
Richard Gere and his spouse, Alejandra Silva, are fixing up their Madrid dwelling — one step at a time. “Working progress,” Silva, 42, wrote by way of her Instagram Tales on Thursday, June 11, sharing a video of their yard landscaping plans. The property sits on huge acreage, teeming with greenery and lined paths. Silva additionally deliberate […]
Lulu added a screenshot of a information article in regards to the historic Connecticut mansion’s upcoming demolition. Based on that article, “Preservationists are racing to salvage its Nineteen Thirties attraction earlier than the 32-acre lot is become 9 new houses.”
Gere purchased the property from Paul, 83, and his spouse Edie Brickell for $10.8 million circa 2022. In October 2024, he bought it to Hudson Valley Home Components for $10.7 million.
In a subsequent Story, Lulu superimposed a photograph of Gere over assorted pet footage, writing, “I HOPE MY DEAD PETS BURIED IN THAT BACK YARD HAUNT YOU UNTIL YOU DESCEND INTO A SLOW AND UNRELENTING MADNESS.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Gere’s rep for remark.
The demolition was first reported in Could. Hudson Valley Home Components shared an Instagram put up that month by which the corporate acknowledged that “our workforce has been working to avoid wasting the items that we are able to from the landfill.”
Earlier than promoting the 1938 property, Gere had needed to transform the property into a non-public farm, the New Canaan Advertiser reported in September 2023.
“I’ve acquired cellphone calls from 4 or 5 neighbors (who had been) very involved … if this was going to be some form of massive business operation, and it’s actually not,” Gere’s lawyer, Richard Rucci, mentioned throughout a Planning and Zoning Fee assembly on the time. “The homeowners … they each have grown up on farms, they’re very thinking about farms and instructing their children about farms … so that is actually essential to them.”
Gere lately moved to Madrid along with his spouse of seven years, Alejandra Silva, and their sons Alexander, 6, and James, 5.
Richard Gere and his spouse, Alejandra Silva, turned their newest purple carpet outing right into a household affair. Gere, 75, and Silva, 42, walked the purple carpet on the Metropolis Harvest Presents the 2025 Gala: Carnaval on Tuesday, April 22, in New York Metropolis alongside his eldest son, Homer. (Gere shares Homer, 24, with ex-wife Carey […]
“My spouse is Spanish, and we’re going there for her household, her associates, her tradition,” the Fairly Girl star defined on At the moment in November 2024. “The youngsters are bilingual, so it’s actually going to be nice for them.”