For years they were the glamour couple of Greenwich, Conn., but as Stephanie Seymour and billionaire paper magnate Peter Brant prepare to meet in divorce court tomorrow, locals are calling them something else.
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“Greenwich housewife material she was not,” says one member of the stuffy town’s old guard of Stephanie Seymour.
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While dating Axl Rose in the ’90s, rumors of wild nights surrounded the model.
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The marriage of former Victoria’s Secret supermodel Stephanie Seymour and billionaire paper magnate Peter Brant, which lasted more than a decade and spawned three photogenic children, was a symbiotic one. She gave him beauty and celeb cachet; he gave her money. Lots of it.
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Of course, Seymour (right) wasn’t your average unwitting babe. The 5-foot-10 beauty first gained tabloid fame in 1983 as a teenage unknown who seduced the swarthy Elite Models chairman John Casablancas – ending his marriage.
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Seymour had a reputation as a man-eater, “working her way through a string of very handsome, very high-profile men,” says Michael Gross, author of the 1995 book “Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women.”
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In legal documents obtained by The Post, Seymour is now citing Brant’s “hostile, threatening and intimidating behavior,” including allegations that he changed locks and safe combinations at their home, took away her jewelry and told officials at youngest child Lilly’s school that her mother was not allowed to pick her up.
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Greenwich insiders say Seymour better sharpen her stilettos, because Brant never gives up anything without a fight. Says one source familiar with his style on the polo field, “He’s a bad sport,” before adding, more ominously, “He will use anything to get ahead.”
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More appalling was Seymour’s decision to pose semi-nude in – gasp! – their Greenwich home for a shoot that later appeared in Juergen Teller’s racy 2002 coffee-table book, “More.” In one shot Seymour appears on all fours in her living room, naked from the waist down except for a pair of bondage heels. Brant often boasted to townspeople that Seymour was an artist’s muse and he was proud of the provocative photographs, the Greenwich doyenne said.
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Initially, Brant and Seymour’s marriage appeared blissful. Art connoisseur Brant had built an expensive collection of beautiful trophies, including polo clubs in Greenwich and the Hamptons, Interview magazine and, some say, his wife. And Seymour seemed game to play the stylish object of his affections.
