Sydney socialite Tiffany Tilley linked to Red Hot Chili Pepper frontman Anthony Kiedis
Friends of Sydney society divorcee Tiffany Tilley have shot down rumours of a sizzling love affair between the beauty and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ frontman Anthony Kiedis but, when asked directly, Tilley could only offer a “no comment”.
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Friends of Sydney society divorcee Tiffany Tilley have shot down rumours of a sizzling love affair between the beauty and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ frontman Anthony Kiedis.
Former model Tilley, 50, is rumoured to have met the tattooed rocker last year following the break-up of her marriage to Ben Tilley, best friend and companion of casino investor James Packer.
Kiedis, 57, is one of the founding members of the Chili Peppers, a rock’n’roll bad boy who has a history of drug abuse and has never married despite fathering a son, Everly Bear, 12, to model Heather Christie. He and Christie split in 2008.
Yesterday Tilley offered a quick polite “no comment” when asked about whispers regarding her clandestine new celebrity love affair, something she has been keeping a firm lid on
for months.
Friends of the socialite scotched talk Tilley holidayed with Kiedis in the Maldives at Christmas and spent time with him earlier this year in Aspen, where she has access to a chic private apartment in the up-market North of Nell hotel purchased by her ex-husband last year.
The couple — who were married for 19 years and have two sons, Tom and Harvey — separated in 2017 after Tiffany called an end to what had increasingly become a long-distance relationship as Ben travelled the world with Packer.
The separation left Tiffany, a one-time Vogue magazine executive, a wealthy woman following the sale of the couple’s Wunulla Rd harbourfront home for almost $20 million in early 2018 with her ex-husband said to have been generous in the settlement.
Tilley is the daughter of New Zealand writer, fashion critic and former 1960s model and muse Judith Baragwanath who was once romantically involved with punk artist Johnny Volume
(aka Ken Cooke) of New Zealand 1970s band
The Scavengers.
At 69, Baragwanath continues to inspire New Zealand fashion designers with her avant-garde personal style and attachment to a colony of artist friends and former lovers she dubbed her “Diamond Dogs”.