Stanley Olender, the former maintenance man who married into the Ford family by wedding Elena Ford in the ’90s, says he’s writing a tell-all — and this time he’s serious.
Olender first threatened to pen a warts-and-all exposé of the Ford family in 2009, when he faced eviction from a South Carolina home that Elena, Ford Motor Co.’s director of global marketing, bought him. As Page Six reported at the time, he had a writer and an agent lined up, but then mysteriously backed down.
“They flew down here, and we worked out a deal,” Olender now tells us. He claims Elena — daughter of fashion designer Charlotte Ford and late shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos — agreed to let him have the house and cover his bills. But Olender added, “I never signed anything that I had to keep silent . . . I can write a book about myself and my life with Elena, and her family members, because they are public figures and I interacted with them. This time I am not screwing around. I’m done playing games.”
Olender says he has new bombshells to add to the book about his relationship with Ford. “We got divorced on the same day [three years after] we got married, Oct. 5,” he recalls. “I’ve known her since she was a little kid.”
Olender told us the reason he’s reviving the book is partly because he received a mysterious call last year from a Long Island woman who allegedly uncovered a shocking revelation about his past relationship with Elena. He said after numerous talks with the woman, he called his ex about the claim.
“[In October] Elena and I had a short talk, and she told me she would call me within one hour,” he said. “I’m still waiting . . . What kind of human would lead somebody on for 20 years?”
Olender and Ford had a daughter, also named Charlotte, but he said he legally gave up custody after he had a massive heart attack in 2004, and while Elena was remarried to plumber and mechanic Joseph Rippolone. Olender still refers to the daughter as “Little Charlotte” and Elena’s mother as “Big Charlotte.” A rep for Ford did not get back to us.