The model said she and her fiancé Jeff Greenstein will come back from their wedding with "nowhere to live"
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- Paulina Porizkova and Jeff Greenstein must leave her Manhattan apartment after the landlord declined to renew the lease
- The couple said they are moving out just four days before their wedding in Italy and will be returning to no home in New York
- They have temporary housing options, including a country house and Greenstein’s Los Angeles home, which is being sold
Just days before they're set to tie the knot in Italy, Paulina Porizkova and fiancé, writer Jeff Greenstein, are unexpectedly facing a major life change back home in New York City.
On the May 20 episode of the Twenty Good Summers podcast they co-host together, Porizkova, 61, revealed that the couple has to leave her Manhattan apartment after her landlord declined to renew the lease.
“We're kind of getting evicted because my landlord, no matter how great a tenant I was for six years, he didn't really want to give us an extension on the lease — even though I begged and pleaded,” Porizkova said. “And so we have to move out of here four days before we get married in Italy."
“Not great,” said Greenstein, 62.
“Not great,” Porizkova said. "We also come back from our wedding and have nowhere to live."
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The model, who has lived in the apartment since 2021, reflected on the emotional weight of leaving the home ahead of such a major milestone.
“We are both over 60, and we are starting again,” Porizkova said. “We're starting over, completely, both of us."
The apartment is particularly meaningful to Porizkova. "It's been the first place, since I was 18 years old that was mine," she said, Greenstein adding it was also the first place the model lived in by herself.
That independence not only gave Porizkova the chance to decorate "without making any compromises," but also a spot she says "that has kept me safe and where I've sort of grown up to be a woman, I feel.”
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Still, the couple acknowledged that they have options while figuring out their next chapter together.
“We're very privileged souls,” she said. “I do have a country house that I co-own with my sons [Jonathan, 32, and Oliver, 28]. And so we can move up there, which is kind of further away from New York City. [But] I despise being locked up there because that's what happened in COVID when my life fell apart.”
They also still have Greenstein's house in Los Angeles, which they are in the process of selling. "For the time being, we can go there,” Porizkova said.
“So we cannot complain, but it is an unexpected happenstance,” Greenstein added. “This is not how we would have drawn the play; this is not how we would have drawn it up. Getting kicked out of this apartment four days before the wedding and coming back to nothing in New York is not what we planned.”
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The couple went on to explain that they've been apartment hunting in Manhattan, which has presented its own challenges. "We have found places that we got really excited about and then for a variety of reasons, it didn't work out, Porizkova said. "We would get all the way like, 'We're about ready to sign' and then we'd find something out that would make it impossible."
"It's gonna happen," Greenstein said, hopefully — joking, "it's been forced upon us."
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They also addressed the situation in a joint Instagram post shared Monday teasing the podcast.
“Friends, we're getting kicked out of our apartment four days before our wedding — thanks, Unsympathetic Landlord! — which, along with some relevant emails from our faithful fanbase, spurred us to do an episode about moving: when to move in together, how to harmonize lives and tastes, and all the emotions such transitions unleash,” they wrote. “Pack a box and join the fun!”
Porizkova was married to Ric Ocasek, the late frontman for The Cars, for 28 years. They announced their split in May 2018.
Greenstein proposed to the model in July 2025 after two years of dating. The couple went Instagram official with their romance in May 2023, three months into their relationship.
A few days after the big reveal, the model reflected on her journey to love again.
"Meeting someone special and falling in love wasn't with a wave of a magical wand. It was the result of really hard work," she said. "I've spent the last three years being single and getting over the belief I was not worthy of love. I had been told I was too needy. Too crazy. Or alternatively, too cold and critical. Part of this 'getting over the wrong beliefs' was what many call learning to love yourself. Honestly, I don't love myself any more or less than I have always done. But I understand myself a whole lot better."
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