Billy Joel was a mess there for a while, about a decade ago. Remember that? Within the span of two years, he crashed his car THREE times, all of accidents were rumored to involve alcohol or some kind of substance. Then he married Katie Lee, his third wife, who was 23 years old when they married in 2004 (Billy was 55 years old at the time). Katie and Billy split in 2009 (word is she got a nice settlement in the divorce) and soon after, Billy began dating another younger woman named Alexis Roderick. Alexis is 33 years old right now while Billy is 65, soon to be 66 in May. And now they’re expecting their first child together. Billy already has one adult kid: 29-year-old Alexa Ray Joel.
Billy Joel, 65, has confirmed he is becoming a dad again. The singer and his girlfriend, Alexis Roderick, said in a statement Tuesday they are expecting their first child this summer, when he will be 66. He already has daughter Alexa Ray Joel, 29, with Christie Brinkley.
A spokeswoman for Joel said in a statement, “Billy Joel and his girlfriend, Alexis Roderick, are expecting their first child this summer. The singer has one daughter, singer/songwriter Alexa Ray Joel. The couple, together since 2009, opted to keep any further details of her pregnancy under wraps until their new addition makes an official debut.”
Joel issued the statement after Radar Online first reported that Alexis is pregnant with his child, and is expecting a girl. The website said the child would be named Madison, but a source said that was not the correct name. Alexis, 33, is a former Morgan Stanley financial adviser, and while sources recently told us they have no immediate plans to marry, she has been seen wearing a diamond ring.
I was going to say “At least he finally learned that he doesn’t have to marry ‘em” until I got to that last part. Yeah, he’s probably going to marry her. In retrospect, I’m still a little bit surprised that Katie Lee didn’t get pregnant. That would have been interesting, just as this is interesting. So… I don’t know, I don’t really feel like unloading on Billy Joel. I think he’s still probably a big mess, just not as publicly messy as he was a decade ago. I think he knows that he’s not going to be around for a large part of this kid’s life, but he figures, “Eh, why not?” Something nice: Alexis is 33, which means she’s old enough to know what she’s doing, even if what she’s doing is simply making a financial plan for her future. She’s not some naïve kid, and hey, at least this wasn’t a one-night thing. Billy and Alexis have been together since 2009.
Still… when your pregnant girlfriend is only four years older than your adult daughter, that’s never a good thing.
Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.
Ok. I don’t want to sound harsh… but what is happening to women’s faces these days? Are all the botox & fillers prematurely aging people? This lady is 33 – 3 years younger than me, but she looks like she could be 50! I guess she could be fudging her age a bit??? IDK. I say, let’s ban the botox & just look like people again.
I thought the same thing. She looks late 40s.
Same here. I had a hard time focusing on the article when she looks like a poster lady for AARP.
Yep. How long has she been 33?
I was just coming to say that! She looks a little rough to be only 33.
umm…well, Billy’s not a looker…so even if she looks 40, she is still way better looking than him (I wonder if puts his bank statements on his face, when they are, um, intimate?)
Well, his eyesight’s just about gone, so…
Bahaha! Excellent observation, GNAT!
She was 33…probably ten years ago…
Ha! My thoughts exactly
Exactly!
i think what’s happening is that all women in hollywood lie about their age, apart for a few who’ve been famous since younger so they can’t change their age now. no way this woman is the same age as natalie portman lmao.
She’s supposedly 2 years older than I am … I don’t know. Could be true. Could be that her hair color and makeup are not kind to her (seriously, what’s with the makeup?). Could be that she has dry skin, it often ages quicker than (my) combination skin. Could be that we have been looking at bad nipping and tucking for too long and don’t know what a human face is supposed to look like anymore.
She probably shaved off 5 years. I never lie about my age and take extremely good care of my skin (genes help) and I LOVE every single woman who’s lying her ass off. Because when I tell people I’m 31, I get a double take and “NOOO but you look so YOUNG I never would’ve guessed!” every time. That’s because you think women in their 40’s are 34. Keep lying, girls!
I’m 33! And this woman looks far older. No problem, her age is her business. It makes the more palatable actually to imagine she’s 40 and with BJ.
I think taking care of your skin is key. That’s one benefit of being very pale. I’ve never skimped on my sunscreen. I’m 36, and when I meet with new clients, they think I’m a kid in college. With my body feeling to creaky, I’ll take what I can get.
I used to tan for like 9 months when I was 20 and I’m freaking out about it in retrospect, hoping I didn’t permanently damage my skin. Two years later, I don’t leave my house with SPF 50.
It works for me: 52, no work (botox, etc.), look like I’m 35. But mind you, it’s genetic and nothing that I use/don’t use/ eat/don’t eat is going to change anything.
People are just starting with all this stuff waaayyyy too early. You really should be somewhere in your 40s before you start with the surgeon’s office. This chica probably started in her late 20s and now she’s going to have to keep everything up for the rest of her life.
i don’t agree it’s all genetic. some of it, definitely, but sun damage and smoking really do ruin your skin no matter how good your genes are.
No fool like an old fool.
Exactly. Keep buying the love and youth, Billy. Maybe this time it will work.
In the pictures from his last wedding, he looked like he was Katie’s father. From the way they posed together to the fact that they actually looked a bit alike, to the massive age difference, if someone didn’t know better they would have thought it was a father-daughter wedding shot. Old fool indeed.
I know, plus for me, there is an Ick factor.
Can you imagine the comments if Madonna showed up with a guy 33 years her junior? But for most people, this is fine, Derek Jeter and his 24 year old is fine, George and Amal are fine. I don’t care who these guys are with, but I hate the double standard.
I’ll eat my hat if she’s 33.
Heck, I will set up a plate next to you and eat my socks if she is too.
I think she means 33 + 5…maybe plus 8…
I’ve never liked him or his music. And oddly, this doesn’t change that fact.
+1.
Wha?? Can you seriously resist the urge to belt Scenes from an Italian Restaurant with all your heart? I’m singing it right now. At my desk.
Still gross
My first thought was “Alexa Ray is going to be a big sister again!”
My second was that he can get senior dad parenting tips from Sirs Paul & Elton.
love. love. LOVE. Alexa’s energy and passion for music.
He’s 65 and looks it (no Liam Neeson) and an alcoholic and has bouts of depression that I can only see getting worse as he gets older. Creatively, he lost it decades ago, never even sits down to write new music, something to give him passion, which is crucial I think to keeping you young. A younger woman picking him to be the father of her child just doesn’t make sense. I don’t get the reasoning. I would want more out of life from a mate and for my child.
I beg to differ. A younger woman picking him to be the father of her child makes both cents, and dollars.
@Size Does Matter…lmao
LOL
FTW
I’ll get flack for saying it, but I really dont’ care. I hate that these old men celebrities having children with much younger women just because the younger women want them. Billy Joel is old, he’s not in good health, he has a drinking problem and bouts of depression. This child will not have a father by the time he/she is only maybe 15 and that’s if Joel lives to be 80, which I doubt, bc we’ve already determined he’s not in ideal health. It’s selfish. Kids need their parents well into adulthood and even after but in different ways. I think of my 11 year old boy and how it would affect him if he were to lose his father in 4 years. It’s heartbreaking.
I also find it disrespectful to your existing adult child(ren).
Could not agree more. Slam me if you want, but I think it’s hella selfish to practically guarantee to your kid that you’ll be in diapers when they graduate high school and gone before their first kid is born.
Agree 100%! I don’t care how much money he’s got to leave the kid. No teenager should see a parent grow old and wither away like his new child will.
+ 1.
It’s sickening, that “p**y for money” behavior among young females. Bc I would never believe, if he were a layman, that he’d have landed with a 30 wifey.
He has 160 million dollars and he is 65. Most people dream about having enough money to retire sometimes in their late fifties. So maybe he just wants to hang around and enjoy his life and his money instead of working. If I had that kind of money, hey I would retire tomorrow morning and just travel and enjoy my life. He makes the best daddy for his baby because both mom and dad has nothing to do but to spend time with that baby and give him/her love. Unlike most parents who come home from work everyday, too tired to talk or play with their kids.
his daughter and she are close in age and have similar names! Oh dear let’s hope for a healthy baby, after 50 men’s sperm has higher chance of unhealthy offspring! Crazy old man move!
I hope she doesn’t start to tell Alexa when it’s time to go to bed and to come home when the street lights go on! After all, she is going to be her step-mom and she is four whole years older!
#sillyolddeludedcrazyricholdmenhavenobrains
Yeah, that’s some really old sperm. I’d be concerned about how old that sperm is.
Are we sure she’s not 43?
i wonder if anyone has heard billy’s older stuff. case in point 52nd street which is an awesome album and one i highly recommend. i know it is now the norm to rout through people’s personal lives and criticize and judge them, but he is an artist (singer, songwriter, piano player). can we show some respect? mazel tov billy. may the fourth one be a charm.
Ugh. His music is bubblegum pop at it’s finest.
He has decades of music and not all of it is bubble gum pop. You don’t have to like it, but show a TINY bit of respect for a renowned artist. Yeesh.
I see no reason to respect someone simply because they are popular. I’m not trying to be rude, I just think his music is for teeny boppers. Renowned artist? Please.
However, I should have probably kept my opinion to myself, so I am sorry for being confrontational about it. You have a right to like whomever you choose, and it’s not really any of my business. Besides, I have been known to sing along with Rocky Mountain High by John Denver, so I am not perfect either.
Teenyboppers don’t listen to Billy Joel – try Arianna Grande, One Direction, Demi Lovato, all that manufactured pap. Billy Joel’s first 2 albums were ground-breaking back in the seventies and yes, I still listen to them. That being said I listen to a lot of modern stuff as well but to call him bubblegum or akin to John Denver is way off base.
Teeny boppers NOW don’t listen to him, of course. I’m backing out of this conversation. Never should have voiced my opinion. Tip toeing away. Didn’t mean to compare him to John Denver, just trying to show that I realize I’m not the last word in musical taste. Bye…remember me like I used to be before I made this comment…my bad…
He’ll be 70 years old with a toddler. And odds are she’ll be a single mom for (perhaps) the teenage years. At least the old coot appears to be healthier than he has been….
Fwiw, I am admittedly not a fan of Billy Joel music either, then or now. Also am not Catholic. But in particular this song of his from 1977 is abrasively offensive (whiny, self-serving, belittling, disrespectful to the female). CRINGE!
“Only The Good Die Young”
Come out Virginia, don’t let me me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
But sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
They showed you a statue and told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
But they never told you the price that you pay
For things that you might have done…
Only the good die young
You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd
We ain’t too pretty, we ain’t too proud
We might be laughing a bit too loud
But that never hurt no one
Come on Virginia show me a sign
Send up a signal I’ll throw you the line
The stained-glass curtain you’re hiding behind
Never lets in the sun
Darling, only the good die young
You got a nice white dress and a party on your confirmation
You got a brand new soul
And a cross of gold
But Virginia they didn’t give you quite enough information
You didn’t count on me
When you were counting on your rosary
They say there’s a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it’s better but I say it ain’t
I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
Sinners are much more fun…
You know that only the good die young
You say your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation
She never cared for me
But did she ever say a prayer for me?
I’m a 36 year old thrash metal fan and I don’t find his music bubblegum pop. His old stuff is good. A lot better than today’s actual pop music
Have you heard his classical pieces? I personally found them lacking, but hardly “bubble gum pop”.
I liked that album back when it first came out and I was a kid and didn’t know any bette. But let’s just say, unlike much of my other old vinyl, it hasn’t seen the light of day since the 70s.
Billy Joel was the music we all sang to in bars in the late 70s/early 80s. I disagree – Piano Man is no bubblegum pop. He used to have a soul.
Khia voice “get money, bitch”
my thoughts exactly.
All hear when I see these significantly younger women getting pregnant to older celebs………cha-ching!
LDUB: came to say the same!
Also: “Still… when your pregnant girlfriend is only four years older than your adult daughter, that’s never a good thing.”
PREACH
I feel so torn on this stuff. I don’t necessarily side-eye all older people having babies (God only knows it’s probably better to have an old dad who loves you than a young one who doesn’t). But hasn’t Billy Joel been very open about being an alcoholic who has issues with depression and stuff like that (I remember that he’s got at least 1 or 2 DUIs to his name). I’m not sure that somebody with his history should really be aspiring to be a dad (again), especially at his age. Babies are stressful even for the richest people – unless he doesn’t intend to really do anything.
He already has one daughter who seems to be pretty well-adjusted and doing quite well now. Why not focus on spending time with the kid you have and being a good father to her? (I get that Alexa is almost 30 but you can still be a dad to her). He’s in his golden years – why not enjoy them?
I agree, and I remember after Billy, had those drunk driving incidents, Christie Brinkley went to court and he couldn’t drive with Alexa in the car, anymore…Hoping he is sober, but if not, now he is OLD and an alcholic….I wouldn’t let him drive my kid anywhere!
Gross!
Exactly. You couldn’t pay me…
What makes people think his ex-Katie didn’t get pregnant? Just because they never had children does not mean she didn’t get pregnant. She could have been pregnant 8 times and just never had them. Maybe she really didn’t want a baby with a man that old. I think that celebs get pregnant many times over, we just don’t see their medical records.
I do think that 65 is way too old for a baby. A little selfish even. I highly doubt Joel will live long enough to see this child graduate from high school/college.
I can’t imagine having a kid at 65, but hopefully he’s in a good place with his health and is a great father to him or her.
The “former financial planner” makes me side-eye the girlfriend a bit. Does dating him somehow prevent her from working? Or is this her new financial plan?
Saw him in concert a couple of years ago – he had both of his hips replaced, and wasn’t moving well, at all. He’ll have a fun time chasing after a child…….oh wait, silly me. She’ll be changing diapers for both the baby and Billy. Mazeltov!
65 is too old to have children. It’s too old for a man and too old for a woman. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/65-year-old-german-woman-expecting-quadruplets-defends-pregnancy
Way too old. He’ll be 83 when his kid graduates high school. Irresponsible
My thoughts, too. Parents should be able to guide their children into adult life.
I agree.
Then again when I read that he wasn’t going to be around for much of the kid’s life I found it a bit unfair. My dad was young, then he died when I was in my teens. I know it’s more likely for a 25 year old to see his kids grow, but an old person might be able to live enough to see the kid go to college.
The case you linked is much more worse imo.
Sad how his first child, a daughter, is never mentioned. He was married to another before Christie.
What?
I see that he was married before Christie, but no kids. His first wife had a child through her previous marriage.
He was married to a woman named Elizabeth in the 80s – she was a nasty creature. Her brother (his BIL) later went on to “rob” the rights to all of Billy’s songs. Christie figured all of this out when she married him, and did something about it. Elizabeth had a son before she married Billy (he’s the kid on the Turnstiles album cover). His only child is Alexa Ray (with Christie).
Thank you. I remember the BIL ruining him financially, but not that his first wife had a son when they married. Saved me the time looking it up later.
Oh I remember that, it was awful!
I think his first wife was his manager in the 1970s and his BIL was his business manager as well. I guess he learned the hard way that he should keep his work life and home life separate. I remember it being very messy and very expensive, financially and emotionally,for him.
I love Billy Joe’s music and he’s had a wretched personal life so I wish him happiness. I hope she’s not just looking for the golden ticket and treats him well.
A total ego boost on his part. Selfish.
Nasty.
We saw him in concert many years ago and it was a fabulous show. He had such energy. At one point, during the above mentioned “Only the Good Die Young”, as he was singing he ran across the stage and straight up the side curtain as he used it to leap higher before sliding down.
Saw him again years later when he stayed at the piano most of the time and it too was a fabulous show.
Wishing him and his family much happiness. Hoping his depression and addictions are under control.
The Alexis/Alexa name similarity add an extra dollop of ick for me. The cherry on top of the age proximity.
If she’s 33 years old, so am I. 🙂
33? Let’s all say we’re 29! Sure it’s about the money..how often do you hear about an old guy living on a small pension attracting women half his age? (And in his case, about a foot taller). The kid will have round-the-clock nannies like most celeb tots and she’ll be financially set.
Ugh, I hate the rhetoric that it is okay for May-Decembers if the woman has a ‘3’ in front of her age. Yes, she is an adult capable of making her own decisions, but let’s be real: he would not be with her if she were older (neither she with him if it were not for his moola). And having a kid at 65 with a woman half your age is such an ego boost for guys like him who do not want to face the reality of aging. I know people get more worked over 20-somethings being with significantly older partners because of the power dynamic, but when the gap is this large, it is still very prevalent. At 33, it might be no big deal to be with a 10-15 years older than you in (comparison to doing it at 23), but there is no way Billy sees her as an equal. Hardly.
Billy, you are still old fool; having a younger mate and a baby doesn’t change that.
He is 65 now.
When the child will be 20 then he will be 85. IF he is still alive by then.
This is not fair on the child: it is VERY likely that the older parent will die before the child is reaching maturity. And to be quite honest: a parent over 70 for a primary school child is just not as fit as a parent under 50.
Okay, in this case: he is filthy rich and there won’t be financial issues … nevertheless … . Not good for the child. Just not good.
She looks older than 33. Not a lot but definitely more mature than many 33-year-olds I know.
No way is she the same age as me, she is at least mid forties and looks old for that due to cosmetic meddling with her face. I don’t understand why women knock so many years off their age, who wants to pass as a busted 33 year old when they can be a fit for 45 year old? The Botox and fillers are making her look weird, that’s never a good look.
Sigh. Another gold digger. Wouldn’t be with him if he was an average pensioner.
Judge much? I am the same age and thought she looked 29 and fresh and young. Everyone has different skin types and elasticity and bone structure. Bless you all for your fantastic genes.
Securing her meal ticket
A lot of unkind judgements and short sighted assumptions about age being thrown around, here.
My Dad was 65 when my brother, Bailey, was born, Dad turned 80 today. Dad’s current wife is 50, so she was 35 when my little brother was born.
My brother has never wanted for anything, not food, not shelter, not attention, not guidance or parental involvement and definitely not love. My Dad is active enough that he ran around after Bailey when Bailey was a toddler and up until a couple of years ago they were both in the local cycling team together. They stopped because Bailey wanted to stop. My Dad is in excellent health and will probably (hopefully) be around when Bailey graduates from high school in a few years.
My Dad is not a wealthy person and never has been, but my little brother has enjoyed more financial and domestic stability in his life than my Dad was ever able to provide to me, and Dad was 38 when I was born. My Dad wasn’t around a lot when I was growing up, for one reason or another, but his parenting abilities have nothing to do with how old he is- if anything he’s been more responsible and present in his child’s life as an old man than he was as a younger man with me.
Every ten year old wants a Dad in his mid seventies.
I don’t think what a ten year old child thinks about the age of their father really enters into it anyway. Ten year olds have stupid opinions about a lot of things. I think my biggest concern when I was ten was my mother not embarrassing me by making me wear second hand clothes. She couldn’t afford to buy me new ones, not that it mattered to me back then, but it was a big deal for me. So was having the latest He Man toys or whatever. Ten year olds aren’t exactly sophisticated thinkers.