The girlfriend of 80-year-old billionaire developer Harry Macklowe is speaking out for the first time.
In an interview with Page Six on Tuesday, about her four-year-relationship with the rich investor, Patricia Landeau, 62, said: ‘I am not a French kept girlfriend.
It comes in the midst of a messy divorce trial between Macklowe and his wife, Linda, a Guggenheim Foundation trustee to whom he’s been married for 57 years.
Patricia Landeau, 62, the girlfriend of 80-year-old billionaire developer Harry Macklowe (pictured together in May 2017 in New York City) is speaking out for the first time about their relationship, saying: ‘I am not a French kept girlfriend’
It comes in the midst of a messy divorce trial between Macklowe and his wife, Linda, a Guggenheim Foundation trustee to whom he’s been married for 57 years (pictured, from left to right: Landeau, Macklowe and Tina Beriro in May 2017 in New York City)
Sources said the billionaire real estate developer kept his mistress in a secret Park Avenue apartment only blocks away from where he lived with Linda at The Plaza.
Landeau is reported to have lived there for as long as two years before Macklowe asked his wife for a divorce.
But the blonde beauty said she resents her portrayal as solely his much-younger mistress, noting that she comes from a background of ‘substantial’ wealth and is still married, although separated from her second husband, a French-American banker.
She is also the current president of the French Friends of Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where Macklowe and his wife were donors and where it’s rumored he and Landeau met.
Macklowe and Landeau are reportedly planning to marry as soon as his divorce is finalized.
At the center of the divorce proceedings are Macklowe’s iconic properties including the 1,396-foot-high 432 Park Avenue – the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere – and the Apple store on Fifth Avenue as well as Linda’s museum-quality art collection.
The trial is expected to stretch into 2018 in what presiding Judge Laura Drager predicted is ‘not going to be a pleasant experience’.
Macklowe is worth a reported $2billion and said in April that he offered his estranged wife half his fortune to leave their marriage quietly; Linda contests she was offered any money.
Macklowe is worth a reported $2billion and said in April that he offered his estranged wife half his fortune to leave their marriage quietly; Linda contests she was offered any money. (pictured together at The American Friends of the Israel Museum 40th Anniversary Gala in November 2005)
Sources said the billionaire real estate developer kept his mistress in an apartment at this Park Avenue building only blocks away from where he lived with Linda at The Plaza
The Macklowes and Landeau are all expected to testify. There is no prenuptial agreement.
At the time, he told reporters outside of a Manhattan courtroom a string of ‘Take my wife – please’-style jokes.
Macklowe told Page Six that Landeau taught him how to smile.
‘I have a lilt,’ he said. ‘I’m getting a divorce because my life with my ex-wife was not a happy one.’
And Landeau described the couple’s romance as a real-life Claude Lelouch film.
‘I’m living in your movie,’ she said she told the legendary director at a screening of his love story ‘Un homme et une femme’ at New York’s French Institute in March.