Hearst family divorce

GILLIAN Hearst, the daughter of Patty Hearst and great-granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, filed for divorce on Friday after 10 years of marriage, Page Six has exclusively learned. We’re told the socialite and Town & Country contributing editor cited irreconcilable differences in her split with lawyer Christian Simonds. The pair — who have three daughters aged 4, 3 and 1 — will have quite the real estate portfolio to divide. They recently “upgraded” from the Sheffield — right next door to the family HQ , Hearst Tower — to a $10 million Upper West Side manse in 2016. The newer digs are a 4,176-square-foot, four-story townhouse on West 83rd Street, according to the Observer. Gillian is the daughter of Patty and Bernard Shaw, and the sister of actress Lydia Hearst. The past few years have presented some challenges for the couple. According to his Instagram, Simonds broke his spine and two ribs in the Bahamas over New Year’s in 2016. Plus, the split comes at a time when the prominent publishing family is back in the news. CNN is screening a multipart documentary series, “The Radical Story of Patty Hearst” — based on Jeffrey Toobin’s book, “American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst” — about her 1974 abduction from her Berkeley, Calif., apartment by a domestic terrorist group when she was 19. Patty has slammed the book, which she says cites one of her kidnappers as its main source — as “romanticizing my rape and torture.” Patty has described her 19-month ordeal as one in which she was brainwashed, raped and repeatedly threatened with death.