SUPERMODEL Stephanie Seymour is getting divorced from her polo-playing husband Peter Brant after 16 years of marriage and three children — but they are still living under the same roof in the marital mansion in Greenwich, Conn.
“It’s OK. I’m sleeping in the maid’s quarters,” Seymour told a friend. “I’m doing the best I can to keep things amicable. I want to be the bigger person. But it’s tough. He’s playing very dirty with me.”
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Seymour — a top model since she was 16 and dating Elite Models boss John Casablancas — was a Victoria’s Secret Angel and a Sports Illustrated swimsuit pinup. She dated Axl Rose in the early 1990s and starred in two Guns N’ Roses videos before meeting Brant, who was married and had five children.
Brant — who collects art, owns thoroughbred racehorses and publishes Interview and Art in America magazines — made his fortune with his White Birch Paper Co., which operates six pulp and paper mills. Brant was jailed briefly for tax evasion in 1990.
Fiercely competitive on the polo field, Brant is also playing for keeps since Seymour filed for divorce two months ago. A friend said she has come home to discover the locks had been changed.
The parties are due in court in Greenwich on Monday, and the litigation is expected to be bitter, with Brant challenging her for custody of their three children — Peter Jr., 15, Harry, 12, and Lilly, 4 — by accusing Seymour of being an unfit mother.
“He’s got the children involved, and it’s not fair to them,” said a friend of Seymour’s. “She’s a big girl and she can take care of herself, but when it comes to her kids, I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
Seymour declined to comment, and her lawyer Tom Colin didn’t get back to us. An executive at the White Birch Paper Co. told us Brant “is not available.”