Can you believe it’s only been two months since Kiss Cam Gate™ — the Coldplay concert seen round the world (and whoever thought that would happen!) where coworkers at a billion-dollar tech startup were caught having an affair on the jumbotron? It feels simultaneously like it was yesterday, yet also like a cultural touchstone that has always been in our lives. Within a week of the incident, the cheating couple Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot — who were CEO and HR head, respectively — resigned from their positions at Astronomer. Shortly after that, Astronomer hired Gwyneth Paltrow as their temporary spokesperson, adding a delicious layer to the story given her famous “conscious uncoupling” (i.e. divorce) from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. The latest on the summer scandal is that Kristin Cabot quietly filed for divorce from husband Andrew Cabot last month, and according to his previous ex-wife, the marriage was already headed towards divorce before the Coldplay concert:
The second Mrs. Cabot speaks: “I texted Andrew right after it happened and he said: ‘Her life is nothing to do with me,’ and said they were separating,’ his ex-wife, Julia Cabot, told The Daily Mail. “He’s saying it has nothing to do with him, even though they were married and shared a house. But then, the only thing he cares about is money,” she continued. “I wouldn’t say he’s husband material,” Julia Cabot revealed. “But she doesn’t seem like wife material either,” she said of the now-twiced-married Kristin Cabot.
Andrew Cabot is a ‘Boston Brahmin’: Paperwork viewed by the Mail shows that Cabot filed papers to dissolve the marriage at a court in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Aug. 13. The divorce would be the third for Andrew Cabot, the CEO of family company Privateer Rum and who Julia Cabot described as a descendant of a “Boston Brahmin” family — meaning he is a posh member of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Boston.
Karma: “That’s why after it happened, I got loads of texts from people with that word: karma. It was like: what you give, you get. Personally, I don’t think he’s affected by what happened at all. I don’t think his feelings are hurt. He’s probably embarrassed, if anything,” said Julia Cabot, who was married to Andrew Cabot for four years until they split in 2018. “He’s a Boston Brahmin, that’s their code: ‘This isn’t anything to do with me.’ His ego is too big to be affected by this and the only thing that he’s bummed about is that he was embarrassed,” she continued. “He’s not a nice person. Now something not nice happened to him.”
Are the Cabots just face-saving? Other sources, however, raised suspicions that the Cabots are only pretending the marriage was fizzling out to save face after the wildly viral scandal. Andrew Cabot had been on a business trip to Japan during the kiss-cam debacle and was blissfully unaware that his wife was publicly canoodling with Astronomer CEO Andy Byron until he came home. “The family is now saying they have been having marriage troubles for several months and were discussing separating, which I find interesting since, as of a month ago, they were saying how in love they are,” the source told the Mail.
Julia Cabot’s conscious uncoupling… of the assets: How the Cabots’ divorce will shake out is yet to be seen — but if Julia Cabot’s divorce from the Rum mogul is any indication, it could turn ugly. Her marriage termination to Andrew Cabot lasted two years, with Andrew Cabot saying in court documents that it was triggered by an “irretrievable breakdown” of their relationship — which Julia contested. She ultimately walked away with $1 million, a $1.9 million home and a Jaguar.
So what do we think: were Andrew and Kristin Cabot really already on the outs before the Kiss Cam, or is it a face-saving move? My take is, doesn’t Kristin having an affair automatically mean the marriage was in trouble? Whether or not her husband knew of it yet? And along those lines, I’m cracking up at the Post going from calling the incident a “wildly viral scandal” and then in the very next sentence trying to claim Andrew was “blissfully unaware” because he was in Japan. It was indeed a viral scandal noted globally, I’m sure Andrew was made aware in time with the rest of us. What a mess. Which brings me to wife/ex-wife #2, Ms. Julia Cabot. Holy cow, was she ready and raring to go to talk sh-t about her ex-husband! Who else thinks that Bravo execs are currently pitching The Real Ex-Housewives of Andrew Cabot to Andy Cohen as we speak? Or did I just give away another one of my brilliant ideas for free…
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The adults all sound dreadful. Hope someone is there for the kids involved in this mess. They sure didn’t ask for this kind of attention.
Sure, it’s *possible* that a twice divorced generationally wealthy rum company exec was a nice loving guy. But it’s not at all surprising that he might not be.
I genuinely feel bad for their kids. They didn’t ask for this and it seems like they’re stuck with two iffy adults as parents. Hope they have some decent adult figured in their lives somehow.
Also, as long as we’re spilling our good ideas, I think there are at least a couple of good stories ripe for the telling about life in Rye NH; it’s like the Newport RI or Hamptons of the Boston/NH New England old money set, and I’m sure there’s some juicy rich-people-behaving-badly stories waiting to be barely fictionalized. And the settings would be gorgeous … side trips to Wentworth by the Sea, New Castle, the Isles of Shoals.
I didn’t realize he’s a Brahmin, so there’s maybe a 2% of finding someone burdened with a conscience in that entire group. The only ones I feel truly sorry for are Andy’s wife and all the kids.
Here’s to the town of Boston
The land of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots
And the Cabots speak only to God.
Still true!
I feel bad about this publicity for any children involved. The end.
She looks so much like Jessica Steen. What a bottom dweller.
He’s the one who’s been cheated on, yet the Post publishes a piece from a heavily biased source insinuating that he deserved it, it was karma, he’s not affected, and he’s not marriage material? That’s an interesting way to portray someone hit by infidelity.
Because HE cheated on his previous wife WITH Kristen Cabot (this Coldplay cam woman). They were both married when they hooked up in 2020, both divorced their spouses, married one another in 2023, and now she’s done it again (affair with someone at her work).
Same reason I laughed at people who felt bad for Andrew Shue when that GMA blonde anchor cheated on him. Andrew Shue had an affair with and left his wife for the GMA lady, only to get cheated on by her lmao people always have this default projection that the cheated-on party is innocent, but a lot of people who end up with people like this lady do just as she does….
The article states he and his second wife divorced in 2018. How do you know he cheated with this one? Not doubting, just Curious.
So it’s cool to cheat on someone if they’ve cheated before? It just sounds a bit like Kristen Cabot is being absolved of her behavior.
MEOW
I feel guilty that I’m still amused by this story. There’s a new element revealed in this article that I hadn’t heard about, the Boston “Brahmins”? What and who are they?
I’m from PA, but I’ve heard the “poem” that is mentioned in another comment:
Here’s to the town of Boston
The land of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots
And the Cabots speak only to God.
The Lowells arrived in Boston in 1639. Cabots arrived in 1700.
Boston Brahmin means the earliest families of Boston.
Thank you! I will look up more about them too!
The term Brahman is a Sanskrit word that signifies “growth,” “expansion,” or “to grow”.
Brahman vs. Brahmin
It is important not to confuse the spiritual concept of Brahman with Brahmin, which refers to a priestly caste and the highest social group in the traditional Hindu social system.
Ttrying to save face saying they were separating… didn’t they buy a cottage just a few months back?