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Phil Collins! Phil Collins. I haven’t heard that name in years, or since I watched those twin teen YouTubers experience “In the Air Tonight” for the first time, a viral event that occurred in … August, somehow. Hm. Well anyway, now it is October, and the timeline is decidedly darker, and Phil Collins’s Miami mansion is allegedly under siege by his ex-wife, her new husband, and their three-to-four armed guards. Poor Phil Collins. How could such a thing have happened?
Through force and scheming, according to court documents published by the Miami Herald and filed in Miami Dade County on October 15. Orianne Cevey Collins Mejjati Bates and Phil Collins, the docs explain, married in 1999 and filed for divorce in 2006, beginning “a new romantic relationship” in 2015. The pair have two children together, and although they did not remarry the second time around — Orianne appears to have had another husband during this period, whom she officially divorced in 2017 — they did co-habitate. The suit says Orianne moved into “the Phil Collins Home” (purchased by Phil in 2015 for $33 million; recently valueed at $40 million) “as his guest,” and his girlfriend. But all of that ended when, on August 2, Orianne secretly married another man in Las Vegas, days after dumping Phil Collins via text.
You can see where, given everything, Phil Collins “naturally expected her to move out of his house,” as the court filings contend. (Emphasis not mine.) Instead, she seemed only to move into it more firmly, reportedly hiring gun-toting heavies to patrol the property and changing all the alarm codes, among other measures. The singer himself has been safely ensconced in Switzerland, while the newlyweds are allegedly holed up in the “Phil Collins Home” with his eight Grammys; his two Golden Globes; his Academy Awards; his platinum and gold records; and all his Alamo stuff. They are “threatening, implicitly and explicitly, to prolong their unlawful occupation of the property through force,” according to court docs, and to leak embarrassing personal information about Phil Collins unless he pays her “a preposterous amount of money based on an oral agreement that does not exist.”
Making matters more confusing, Orianne allegedly has a $1.7 million pad in Las Vegas and as far as Phil Collins’s legal team can tell, nothing is preventing her from simply living there. His attorneys are asking for a preliminary injunction, which would help local police clear this pair off of the premises. Orianne’s attorney, Frank Maister, told the Herald they would “deal with Mr. Collins in the courthouse, not the gossip column.”
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