Supermodel Paulina Porizkova and comedy writer Jeff Greenstein, whose credits include Will & Grace, Friends, Desperate Housewives, and The Neighborhood, tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at Villa Crespi in Orta San Giulio, Italy. The couple met on a dating app in January 2023, met in person in New York a month later, and got engaged in July 2025 in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, where Paulina was filming a movie.
Greenstein had planned an elaborate proposal there, complete with a century-old Art Deco ring and a music box playing Smetana’s “The Moldau” at an 18th-century lookout tower, only to get down on one knee and realize the ring itself was missing. He said the words anyway, she said yes, and the ring turned up back in his bag in the car.
Photo: Jill Greenberg, Gabe Sachs
Villa Crespi itself, a Moorish Revival-style 19th-century mansion turned 14-room luxury hotel, is run by three-Michelin-starred chef Antonino Cannavacciuolo, who handled the wedding dinner personally. The location carried real history for Porizkova. She’d first visited Villa Crespi three decades earlier for a modeling shoot, then returned with Greenstein in 2024 during a post-engagement trip through Germany and Switzerland into Italy. As she tells it, they both had the same thought at the same moment: why not swing by and see if they could get married there. They set the date for July 3, 2026, exactly three and a half years after they first met in New York.
The ceremony stayed entirely in the family. Porizkova’s brother and Greenstein’s sister officiated, while Porizkova walked down the aisle to Smetana’s “The Moldau,” performed live by her two sons, Jonathan and Oliver, along with her stepson, Eron Ocasek. The rings were designed by Porizkova herself and crafted by Peter Norman Jewelers in Los Angeles. After dinner, DJ Giampiero Ponte took over for dancing late into the night.
Photo: Gabe Sachs (1-3), Jill Greenberg (4)
What stands out most, style-wise, is how deliberate Porizkova was about not looking like a typical bride. Having worn countless white bridal gowns over her modeling career, she was adamant from the start that white wasn’t an option this time. She wanted something closer to what she calls “a not color,” ineffable and elusive enough that no one could pin it down as “she wore a yellow dress” or “she wore a pink dress,” and a gown built to “move like water” around her. She landed on a design from House of Gilles for the ceremony, paired with flat sandals, her silver hair worn loose and her makeup kept minimal. Greenstein matched the energy in jeans and a printed shirt. For a woman who spent decades as one of fashion’s most recognizable faces, the choice to skip anything resembling a traditional bridal look feels deliberate, less a wedding “moment” than two people getting married on a balcony because they wanted to.
Photo: Danielle Simone & Co.
This marks Porizkova’s second marriage. Her first, to The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, lasted nearly thirty years and produced two sons before the couple separated in 2017; Ocasek died in 2019 while the divorce was still being finalized.
The timing of a recent Instagram reel makes that history land even harder. In it, Porizkova looks back at herself ten years ago, at 51, saying she felt like she’d lost her purpose entirely, “used and used up,” caught between being lonely inside her marriage or simply being alone, with no career and children who no longer needed her. Now, a decade later, at 61 and newly married in her favorite place with her favorite people, her own conclusion lands simply: “Until you’re dead, it’s never too late.”
