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At their lavish wedding at a Utah resort, heiress Andi Potamkin and celebrity hairstylist William Jordan Blackmore exchanged rings and said, “I do.” Their friend and yoga instructor, Dana Rizer, officiated and pronounced the couple married during the November 2015 ceremony.
“The truth was that Andi never wanted to marry Jordan; she just wanted a lavish wedding experience, a public-relations stunt and the attention that came with it,” according to court papers filed in Brooklyn.
During the celebratory weekend at the Amangiri resort, there were guided walks, zip-lining and yoga classes; “frequent outfit changes” were encouraged, and a high-end fashion magazine that covered the event described it as “[t]he dreamiest desert wedding you’ve ever seen,” according to court papers.
Blackmore — a New York City-based hairdresser whose clients he says have included Marc Jacobs, Leighton Meester, Andre Balazs, Elizabeth Olsen, Brian Atwood andSelena Gomez— is suing Andi and her father in excess of $2 million for fraud and seeks to nullify the prenup and have a jury trial, according to court papers.
“Both parties agree that they had a beautiful destination wedding, that they were very much in love, and that they lived together as husband and wife,” the statement says.
However, in January, Andi apparently emailed Blackmore a draft separation agreement describing their wedding as a “symbolic ceremony” that “did not constitute a legally binding marriage,” according to court papers.
And since they “were, in fact, never married to each other,” the prenup was never in effect, Andi allegedly wrote, according to the lawsuit.
Blackmore’s attorney, Matthew Coogan, tells PEOPLE in an emailed statement, “Andi and Alan Potamkin’s current change of position is all too convenient an effort to distance themselves from the Machiavellian fraud perpetrated on Jordan Blackmore for over three years.”
source: people.com
