For more than a year throughout the summer of 2008 and past the summer of 2009, Balthazar Getty was engaged in a very public affair with Sienna Miller. To this day, neither Balthy or Sienna has really explained their actions publicly. It wasn’t like they were hiding either – there were topless vacations for the benefit of the paparazzi, there were holidays spent with the mistress rather than his wife and four children, and there was Sienna Miller’s attempt at making herself the victim in the situation (“I was really naïve and trusting” she told Vogue, before going on yet another topless vacation with the still-married Getty). Throughout it all, Balthy’s wife Rosetta refused to file for divorce – and some believe (like me) that Rosetta kept her eye on the Getty fortune, and the rumors that Rosetta and her kids would get less money if there was a divorce rather than an eventual reconciliation.

Well, in the end, Sienna left Balthy for a various string of hookups and a reconciliation with Jude Law, and Balthy went crawling back to Rosetta. So Rosetta was smart right? She waited it out, kept her eye on the money, raised their kids, and eventually Balthy came back and now all is well? Sure. In the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar, Balthy is interviewed for some reason, and he tries to explain what happened:

Balthazar Getty tells Harper’s Bazaar how his marriage survived a fling with Sienna Miller. Getty was photographed in 2008 kissing a topless Miller on vacation.

“Here’s the bottom line: It was a very challenging time for everybody involved,” says Balthazar, 35, in the October issue. “But I loved and missed my family too much not to make it work. [Wife] Rosetta is understanding enough and spiritual enough to let us try.”

[From Page Six]

“Understanding and spiritual enough to let us try”? What in the open marriage hell is that? Don’t get me wrong, I kind of understand this argument in retrospect – Rosetta could have been “There won’t be a divorce, but you can have your whore.” And Balthy was all “Thank you!” But I don’t really think that’s the way it played out in real time, you know? Mainly because Rosetta and her Hollywood friends made sure they did real, substantial damage to Sienna Miller’s career (it still hasn’t recovered), and Balthy f-cked himself out of a decent role in television, and probably some other stuff too. I think Rosetta was actually pissed off, and it wasn’t an issue of “letting us try.” It was a matter of “When that whore dumps him and he comes crawling back, he’s going to have to pay for a LONG TIME.”