‘Disastrous year’: Phil Collins’ ex looks back in anger in New Year’s Instagram post
Hello, 2022 must be going.
Here’s to hoping 2023 will be better for all of us, and most of all, Orianne Cevey.
Because the last 12 months or so haven’t been kind to Phil Collins’ ex, she explained over the weekend on Instagram, along with a surly picture.
“Finally reaching the end of this disastrous year. Definitely one of the worst for me,” began the Swiss native’s lengthy complaint, half in French. “Alone with my two faithful companions Billy and Tony,” her dogs. “No husband for a long time.”
Cevey, married three times, then launches into a diatribe about her third ex husband, Thomas Bates. The two eloped while Cevey was still cohabiting with the Genesis legend, whom she had reunited with after famously divorcing him for an epic amount of money in 2008.
The newlyweds then attempted to take ownership of the legendary musician’s North Bay Road mansion while he was away touring with Genesis. That attempt failed, with Collins suing to have Cevey and Bates successfully evicted. Collins sold the 11 bedroom waterfront estate for more than $39 million to private equity billionaire Orlando Bravo in early 2021.
Collins’ local attorney Jeffrey Fisher told the Miami Herald that the case was closed last November: The “In the Air” tonight singer was “completely exonerated,” Fisher said, with a judge finding that Cevey’s claim that the drumming icon promised his ex half of the house to be “fabricated.”
As for Bates, the love story ended soon after they moved out of the Miami Beach digs to their own $6 million place in Fort Lauderdale. The Lighthouse Point native is now modeling and his Instagram account set to private; their former love nest is in foreclosure.
“He was only there for interests and to decided to give me a hard life,” Cevey’s bitter post continues about Bates. “Nothing but trials and tribulations. But the venom of my enemies will not let me down. I will rise from the ashes stronger and more at peace. Never, ever again will I be fooled.”
The post continues in English railing against a disparaging article UK paper The Daily Mirror wrote about her, but we stopped reading as we suddenly had the urge to listen to “Another Day in Paradise.”
This story was originally published January 5, 2023 at 12:43 PM.
