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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nRead more<\/span><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPaul Simon\u2019s daughter has torn into Richard Gere for selling her childhood home to a property developer who plans to demolish the 1930s mansion.<\/p>\n
Lulu Simon, 30, the daughter of the Simon and Garfunkel musician and Edie Brickell, criticised the Pretty Woman<\/em> star\u2019s decision to sell her former family home in New Canaan, Connecticut, to property developers with plans to build nine houses in its place.<\/p>\nSimon wrote on her Instagram Stories on Tuesday (8 July): \u201cHate! Him!\u201d next to a picture of Gere and a screenshot of a news story about the six-bedroom historic home being torn down despite backlash from preservationists. <\/p>\n
Simon claimed Gere, 75, promised her family that he would \u201ctake care of the land\u201d when he purchased the home from Simon and Brickell for $10.8m (\u00a37.9m) in 2022, which was built in 1938 on a 32-acre plot.<\/p>\n
She claimed that looking after the land was a \u201ccondition of his purchase\u201d, but did not go into further detail about the alleged agreement.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust in case anyone was wondering if I still hate Richard Gere \u2013 I do!\u201d she said. \u201cHe 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 nine separate plots :).\u201d<\/p>\n
The Independent <\/em>has contacted Gere\u2019s representatives for comment.<\/p>\nIn a second slide, she continued: \u201cI hope my dead pets buried in that backyard haunt you until you descend into a slow and unrelenting madness.\u201d <\/p>\n
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open image in gallery<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>Lulu Simon has criticised Richard Gere for selling her family\u2019s former home (Instagram\/@lulusimon official\/Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nThe caption was written over an old photo of Gere, edited onto a collage of images depicting her late pets.<\/p>\n
Gere sold the property in 2024 for $10.75m, two years after purchasing it.<\/p>\n
In May, it was revealed that the home was scheduled for demolition. The news came after Gere and his wife Alejandra, 42, who is from Spain, had already moved to Madrid to be closer to her family. <\/p>\n
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open image in gallery<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>Richard Gere with his wife Alejandra (Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nThe pair, who married in 2018, share sons Alexander, six, and James, five. Alejandra is also mother to son, Albert, 11, with ex-husband Govind Friedland, while Gere shares son Homer, 25, with his ex-wife, the James Bond: License to Kill <\/em>actor Carey Lowell.<\/p>\nDuring an interview with Vanity Fair<\/em> Spain in 2024, Gere said that their decision to move to Madrid after his wife spent six years living with him in the US.<\/p>\n\u201cFor Alejandra, it will be wonderful to be closer to her family, her lifelong friends and her culture,\u201d he said. \u201cShe was very generous in giving me six years living in my world, so it is only fair that I give her at least another six living in here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it. Your support makes all the difference. Read more Paul Simon\u2019s daughter has torn into Richard Gere for selling her childhood home to a property developer who plans to demolish the 1930s mansion. Lulu Simon, 30, the daughter of the Simon and Garfunkel musician and Edie Brickell, criticised the Pretty Woman star\u2019s decision to sell her former family home in New Canaan, Connecticut, to property developers with plans to build nine houses in its place. Simon wrote on her Instagram Stories on Tuesday (8 July): \u201cHate! Him!\u201d next to a picture of Gere and a screenshot of a news story about the six-bedroom historic home being torn down despite backlash from preservationists. Simon claimed Gere, 75, promised her family that he would \u201ctake care of the land\u201d when he purchased the home from Simon and Brickell for $10.8m (\u00a37.9m) in 2022, which was built in 1938 on a 32-acre plot. She claimed that looking after the land was a \u201ccondition of his purchase\u201d, but did not go into further detail about the alleged agreement. \u201cJust in case anyone was wondering if I still hate Richard Gere \u2013 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}