Paulina Porizkova Weds Writer Jeff Greenstein in Italy
The former supermodel and widow of The Cars frontman Rick Ocasek married in an intimate ceremony in Italy, three years after her relationship with screenwriter Jeff Greenstein began.
- Paulina Porizkova, 61, married screenwriter Jeff Greenstein, 62, in an intimate ceremony in Italy.
- The couple shared the news on Instagram with photos and a "Just married" note.
- They went public in 2023 and announced their engagement in July 2025.
- The paperwork for two foreigners to marry in Italy took roughly seven months.
Paulina Porizkova, 61, the former supermodel, announced on Friday that she has married screenwriter Jeff Greenstein, 62, in an intimate ceremony in Italy. The couple shared the news on Instagram, alongside photos of the two embracing and showing off their new wedding bands, with a short “Just married” note.
For a woman who spent decades as one of the most recognizable faces in global fashion, this is a second marriage. Greenstein has been her longtime partner, and the two have been open about their relationship ever since they went public with it.
Photos and clips from the ceremony spread quickly online. One post shows the newlyweds sharing a kiss, while another has them raising their hands to display the rings. No sprawling spectacle, no guest list to gossip about, just the two of them and a piece of paper that, as they revealed, was harder to obtain than you might expect.
How long did it really take to say “I do”?
Earlier in the week, the couple shared a detail that surprised many. Getting married in Italy as two foreign nationals meant roughly seven months of paperwork. Bureaucracy, translations, certifications, everything that has nothing to do with romance but without which there are no rings.
Their story has been unfolding for a while. They went public in 2023 and announced their engagement in July 2025. The wedding, then, came exactly one year after the proposal, which by Hollywood standards is an almost measured pace.
In recent years, Porizkova has been candid about what it looks like to fall in love again later in life. Her honesty on Instagram, where she writes about aging, loss, and new beginnings, built her an audience that followed this relationship from the start. In that sense, the wedding announcement felt like the natural ending to a story she had been telling in installments.
From Rick Ocasek to a fresh start
For years, the name Paulina Porizkova was tied to another, Rick Ocasek, the frontman of The Cars. The two were married from 1989 and announced their separation in 2018. Ocasek died in 2019, while the divorce was still in progress, leaving Porizkova in the strange position of being a widow and a soon-to-be ex-wife at the same time.
She has written about that period without flinching. She spoke about the will, about feeling left out, about how she coped with losing a man she was in the process of parting from. That is exactly why this new marriage is not just an entertainment headline. For many who followed her posts, this is a woman who went through the hardest part and still agreed to trust someone again.
Greenstein, a screenwriter with a long career in television comedy, is not the glamorous Hollywood arm candy in this story, but someone who, in her words, brought calm. And perhaps that is precisely what resonates most with her audience, the idea that a second chapter does not have to be written in bold letters to be a happy one.
Do stories of love later in life move you more than the typical celebrity wedding, or do you see in them just another Instagram post?
