Paulina Porizkova Feels Betrayed After Being Cut Out Of Husband Ric Ocasek's Will
The Cars frontman wrote before his death, 'she has abandoned me.'
Feb. 29 2020, Updated 1:36 p.m. ET
Ric Ocasek cut estranged wife Paulina Porizkova out of his will and she's devastated.
The model, 54, gave an interview to CBS This Morning, set to air this Sunday, in which she revealed the shocking snub.
The Cars frontman, who died on September 15 at age 75 of heart disease, had been married to Porizkova since 1989. Although they split in 2017, their divorce wasn't finalized at the time he passed away.
“Even if I should die before our divorce is final … Paulina is not entitled to any elective share … because she has abandoned me,” Ocasek wrote in his will signed Aug. 28.
In a CBS preview clip, Porizkova said that Ocasek's financial decision, "made the grieving process really, really tricky. I would love to be able to be sad and miss him and not also feel this incredible hurt and betrayal.”
Porizkova said she was still living with the rocker at the time his death and found his body at their New York home.
It was “the worst moment of my life,” she confided of the spouse with whom she had two sons.
According to Page Six, Ocasek had $5 million in assets according to papers filed with his will in Manhattan Surrogate’s court in November.
Porizkova filed court papers revealing that she plans to fight for her automatic elective share, which under New York law entitles her to one third of Ocasek’s estate unless it can be proved in court that she did in fact abandon him as he claimed.
As RadarOnline.com reported, Porizkova previously disclosed the drama surrounding the "Good Times Roll" musician's unexpected death. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Porizkova said that Ocasek had undergone surgery two weeks earlier, but it was “not at all” the cause behind his death.
“I don’t know how much I want to say about the surgery, but it was successful. He was recuperating really well,” she noted. “So his passing was a f***ing shock.”
Now the beauty has been blindsided again – by the rocker's angry denunciation of her in his will!
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Last Moments
Porizkova recalled giving Ocasek cookies the night before his death. "When I got there, he was sitting in his usual chair and I said, ‘I got some gooey cookies,’ and he said, ‘OK, thanks, hon — I had some terrible cookies because I was in the mood for cookies, but I’ll have your gooey cookies tomorrow. I think I’m going to bed early since I‘m feeling a little sore,’ ” she said. “And that was the last time I saw him alive.”
Rock Star & Model Match
Porizkova had sons Jonathan and Oliver with Ocasek. The two met in 1984 when she starred in the music video for The Cars’ song “Drive.”
Breaking Up
The model and her man began divorce proceedings in 2017 but they were still officially married when Ocasek died.
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Page Six reported that Ocasek appeared to have not only cut Porizkova out of his will—but also two of his six sons, Adam and Christopher, not the ones he had with the beauty.
Gruesome Find
Porizkova previously recalled of finding her husband dead: “I walked up to him and he still looked asleep. Except he was really, really still and his eyes were a little bit open. I thought he was waking up, actually. I was about to wave my hand in front of his face and go, ‘Hey, I brought you coffee.’ But I touched his cheek and it was like touching marble. That was pretty f***ing awful.”
