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Christie Brinkley's tragic lost love BEFORE Billy Joel: Dashing champagne heir died in race crash aged 27

Christie Brinkley was swept up in a fairytale romance with a devastating ending a year before her tumultuous union with hitmaker Billy Joel began.

The supermodel, famed for her peppy smile and California girl looks, was fresh off an eight year marriage to French artist Jean-François Allaux when she first connected with another Frenchman, champagne heir Olivier Chandon de Brailles in 1982. Christie Brinkley was swept up in a fairytale romance with a devastating ending a year before her union with Billy Joel began - pictured with Olivier Chandon de Brailles in 1982 in NYC The Piano Man singer explained that he reached out to Brinkley after he heard that her boyfriend had died to offer his condolences, they struck up a friendship, and things eventually turned romantic - pictured 1988 with daughter Alexa Ray

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