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Christie Brinkley beat off TWO famous beauties for Billy Joel's love - but his cruel betrayal broke her heart
The night Christie Brinkley met Billy Joel is the stuff of rock 'n' roll legend. But what she has rarely discussed is the fact that she had to compete with two other famously beautiful women.
In her new memoir, Uptown Girl, she reveals she was on the exclusive Caribbean island for a magazine shoot in January 1983 - fresh out of a breakup with uber-wealthy Olivier Chandon de Brailles, heir to the Moët-Chandon Champagne fortune. 'The young woman, it turned out, was Whitney Houston, a 19-year-old model from New Jersey who, in January 1983, was in St Barts for a shoot and, one month later, would sign a worldwide record deal that put her on the path to becoming 'the voice' and one of the greatest singers in music history.' 'Trapped inside the shattered cabin, the six of us began to bounce violently across the saddle, glass, metal, and other debris flying everywhere, as we tumbled like bodies in a washing machine set to the spin cycle, with such centrifugal force that it sucked off my watch.'
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