Paulina Porizkova said she is being evicted from the Manhattan apartment she has lived in for six years — and that she and her fiancé, Jeff Greenstein, will have to leave four days before their wedding in Italy.
Porizkova delivered the news on the couple’s podcast, Twenty Good Summers, describing the apartment as the place that “has kept me safe, and where I've sort of grown up to be a woman, I feel.” She said the landlord “did not want to, no matter how great of 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.” The timing, she added, means “we have to move out of here four days before we get married in Italy.”
The figures underline the disruption: six years in the apartment, an engagement announced in July 2025, and a move that must be completed just four days before the wedding. Greenstein framed the situation plainly: “Getting kicked out of this apartment four days before the wedding and coming back to nothing in New York is not what we planned.” He also told listeners, “This is not how we would have drawn it up.”
Context: Porizkova said the apartment has been emotionally central to her life — “It's been the first place since I was 19 years old that was mine…That I got to decorate myself without making any compromises.” The couple acknowledged they technically have other options: Porizkova co-owns a country house with her sons Jonathan and Oliver, and Greenstein’s house in Los Angeles is in the process of being sold — but neither is a ready, permanent New York home for the pair when they return from Italy.
The friction in the story is not a lack of resources so much as timing and place. Porizkova repeatedly tilted between gratitude and alarm: “We're very privileged souls,” she said, then laid out the practical consequence bluntly: “We have nowhere to live.” Greenstein agreed the situation was an unwanted twist: “We cannot complain, but it is an unexpected happenstance,” he said, and added an unmistakable note of resigned humor about their vows: “We are coming back to, for better or worse, literally for richer or poorer, right? We will be embarking on a new life together. It won't look like the old one.”
There is a tension between Porizkova’s depiction of herself as a careful, long-term tenant and the landlord’s refusal to extend the lease — a decision she says came despite her pleas and six years of steady occupancy. That refusal turns a private domestic moment into a public problem on the eve of a wedding and tests the couple’s plan to begin a life together late in their careers: “We are both over 60, and we are starting again,” Porizkova said, adding a measure of faith that frames the upheaval: “This is providential…that the universe has a plan for us.”
Porizkova, who was married to Ric Ocasek for nearly thirty years until his death in 2019, and Greenstein, who announced their engagement in July 2025, will marry in Italy days after vacating the Manhattan apartment. Their immediate future is clear: they will proceed with the wedding and return to no permanent New York residence. They have fallback properties, but no New York home waiting — and the couple says they will have to begin their married life by rebuilding a domestic base from that gap.
The answer to the question the couple posed for listeners — will they be homeless after the wedding? — is that they will not be destitute, but they will be starting over without a settled New York address; they intend to marry as planned and then make a new domestic life from the circumstances they have described.
