Paulina Porizkova feels ‘betrayed’ after being cut out of husband Ric Ocasek’s will

Paulina Porizkova has broken her silence after her husband of 30 years, The Cars singer Ric Ocasek, left her out of his will despite her taking care of him when he died.

Supermodel Paulina Porizkova said she feels betrayed after being cut out of her late rocker husband Ric Ocasek’s will, according to an interview.

“It made the grieving process really, really tricky,” Porizkova said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning set to air this weekend. “I would love to be able to be sad and miss him and not also feel this incredible hurt and betrayal.”

The New York Post’s Page Six reported that Porizkova — who told CBS she was still living with The Cars’ frontman at the time of his death — told the outlet finding his body in their Gramercy Park townhouse, was “the worst moment of my life.”

Porizkova described her estranged husband’s death as “untimely and unexpected” in an Instagram post soon after.

“Ric was at home recuperating well after surgery,” the statement continued. “Our two sons, Jonathan and Oliver, and I were making sure he was comfortable, ordering food and watching TV together.”

Porizkova — a prolific model in the 1980s and 1990s — met the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer in 1984 while filming the music video for The Cars’ song “Drive.”

The pair — who had two sons together — married in 1989 and began divorce proceedings in 2017. The divorce was not finalised by the time Ocasek died September 15 of heart disease.

“Even if I should die before our divorce is final … Paulina is not entitled to any elective share … because she has abandoned me,” Ocasek wrote in his will signed Aug. 28.

Ocasek claims ex-wife wife Porizkova abandoned him even though they were still living together and she discovered his body when she brought him coffee. Picture: AFP

The 75-year-old new wave rock star left behind $5 million ($7.67 million) in assets according to papers filed with his will in Manhattan Surrogate’s court in November.

Porizkova has since filed court papers indicating that she plans to fight for her automatic elective share, which under New York law entitles her to 1/3 of Ocasek’s estate unless it can be proved in court that she did in fact abandon him as he claimed.

Ric Ocasek and Paulina Porizkova in happier times, at Tropfest in Sydney. She is contesting his will after learning the day after his death that she had been cut out. Picture: Supplied

“I, Paulina Porizkova, the surviving spouse of the Decedent, do hereby exercise the personal right of election,” and “elect to take my elective share,” the court papers from Dec. 17 said.

Ocasek, in his will, appeared to have also cut out two of his six sons — though not the children he had with Porizkova.

Those sons, Adam and Christopher, have also hired a lawyer who said after a December court date that he couldn’t say yet if they would fight their disinheritance.

This story first appeared in the New York Post and is republished with permission.

Originally published as Paulina Porizkova feels ‘betrayed’ after being cut out of husband Ric Ocasek’s will