She’s one of the world’s most eligible bachelorettes again.
Consuelo Vanderbilt — an eighth-generation descendant of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt — is single, having legally separated from her husband of 15 years, Rafael Feldman, we hear.
has exclusively learned that New York-based Vanderbilt — a successful singer and the cofounder of a startup called SohoMuse — and Feldman split six months ago.
They’ve sold their marital home, and she’s moved to a Manhattan apartment, while Feldman, we hear, has decamped to Paris, and is keeping a New York pied-a-terre.
Said a pal of the attractive pair, “The two remain best friends.”
But the friend added, “because of an ironclad prenup he will have no money from the Vanderbilt family trust, or use of any of the vast properties like their camp in Upstate New York.”
Vanderbilt, often referred to as the “Rebel Heiress,” has been known as “Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin,” but is now simplifying her famous name to just Vanderbilt. She confirmed the split when we reached out for comment, and told us from London Fashion Week of her ex, “We will always be the best of friends.”
She added that the marriage was “a beautiful collaboration,” and that the couple, “wrote over 1,000 songs together.”
Feldman is an actor, filmmaker and real estate broker. They married in 2007 — when the bride was 27 and the groom was 29 — at a winery in Sonoma. (Feldman did not reply to a request for comment.)
The duo “expedited” their nuptials, Vanderbilt recalls, because her mother, Serena Vanderbilt Van Ingen McCallum, was in poor health at the time.
“She danced at my wedding,” Vanderbilt said. “I was her health proxy for four years.”
But the next day, her beloved mother “had a stroke on the way to the brunch,” and died months later.
“He held my mother’s hand when she died,” Vanderbilt says…
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