Socialite Brynne Edelsten slams ‘gold digger’ claims and spills on 2009 wedding
Socialite Brynne Gordon has answered the question we’ve long pondered and revealed her next ambition – finding a bloke on TV.
US socialite Brynne Gordon has opened up about her heavily publicised marriage to millionaire Geoffrey Edelsten, adding that – now single – she’s eyeing off a spot as the next Bachelorette.
Gordon and her ex Edelsten’s 41-year age gap raised eyebrows a decade ago, and their jaw-droppingly lavish nuptials – costing a staggering $3.3 million at Melbourne’s Crown Casino – attracted inevitable questions surrounding her intentions.
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But in an upcoming interview in Stellar magazine, available inside The Sunday Telegraph this weekend, Gordon insists she married for love, not money.
“Money is nice. Nobody is going to turn money down. But it was never about that. Believe it or not, Geoff can be very, very nice,” she said of the Melbourne-based businessman.
Reflecting on their wedding day, she said: “I cried the whole way. Mum said, ‘Brynne, if you don’t want to, we can run away right now.’ But, of course, I didn’t want to run away. I wanted to marry him.”
Gordon was a 26-year-old fitness instructor from California when she married then 67-year-old Edelsten after meeting nine months prior.
They met on a blind date in Las Vegas.
Their wedding included a helicopter arrival and circus performers for 500 guests including Margot Robbie, Kerri-Anne Kennerley and American actress Fran Drescher.
Bizarrely, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander gave an address at the wedding, and narrated a DVD invitation shot by Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall.
The couple had never met Alexander, or The Nanny actress Drescher.
“We met them briefly when they flew into Melbourne,” Brynne told news.com.au last year.
“They were both lovely. Jason especially was very funny. Geoff had them at the wedding because he wanted people who were Jewish, because he is Jewish.
“When they spoke at the wedding I remember thinking that Jason was absolutely hilarious.
“Fran was lovely, but I thought she would be a little bit funnier, I guess.”
Six years after Australia’s most extravagant wedding, they split, which Gordon attributed at the time to a “lack of intimacy”, slamming her ex as “publicity-obsessed” and unfaithful in their marriage.
“It was a very lonely marriage because he worked very hard,” she told Stellar.
Opening up toKyle and Jackie Oin 2018, she said they had discussed doing IVF, but didn’t want to bring a baby into an unhappy marriage.
Speaking of the divorce, she said of her ex’s enormous wealth – and rumoured bankruptcy: “We haven’t settled yet, we’re divorced legally but we haven’t reached an agreement yet. But you never know with Geoff because Geoff has so many secrets and hides so many things, so you never know what’s true or not true, so I have no idea where he stands.”
Medical entrepreneur Edelsten, 76, later went on to marry rapper and rumoured former sex worker Gabi Grecko, 29, who he has been in an on-off relationship with for four years.
The two notably split at the end of 2015, but reunited in 2018.
In April this year, it was rumoured the pair had split again, according to Daily Mail Australia.
Former Dancing With The Stars contestant Gordon, now 36, also moved on, but has been unlucky-in-love ever since.
She recently split from Leno Cachia, and was previously engaged to comedian Brett Hunter in 2017. After calling off the engagement, she had moved on with a woman named Coby Boatman, but the relationship didn’t last.
In her interview with Stellar, she dropped that given the chance, she’d have a crack at finding love on reality TV.
“I’d like to be The Bachelorette. I could do that … Line them up!” she said.
Gordon has previously admitted she didn’t know some of the guests at her wedding to Edelsten, adding that she looks back now and is “impressed” by the stars who made it to the headline-grabbing event.
“I didn’t realise Margot was there,” she told news.com.au.
“At that point, I was just starting to get familiar with Australia in general, let alone know who the people were at the wedding.”
“I didn’t actually understand, let alone appreciate how lucky I was to have those people there. I didn’t realise how big a deal it was,” she added.
“Now I look at some of the guest list, and it’s actually really impressive. I was a bit oblivious to it all at the time.”
In 2005, Geoffrey Edelsten and a business partner founded Allied Medical Group, which by 2010 administered 17 medical centres and employed around 250 general practitioners.
Edelsten is not, however, a shareholder or owner of the company.
The disgraced doctor spent 12 months in jail in 1990 for recruiting infamous underworld hitman, the late Christopher Dale Flannery, to assault a former patient.
For the full interview, Stellar Magazine is available inside The Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Herald Sun and The Sunday Mail.
For more from Stellar, head to www.stellarmag.com.au
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