Artist’s boyfriend lost in Hudson
Annie Lennox’s daughter in kayak horror
THE DAUGHTER of Grammy Award-winning singer Annie Lennox survived a kayaking accident in the Hudson River — but her boyfriend was missing late Saturday, authorities said.
Tali Fruchtmann, 22 — who goes by Tali Lennox — and her boyfriend Ian Jones, 32, were paddling near the hamlet of Staatsburg when their tandem kayak capsized about 10 a.m., authorities said.
Lennox, a model-turned-artist, was plucked out of the water by a passing vessel, but her photographer boyfriend remained unaccounted for.
Investigators suspended their search for Jones about 5:30 p.m. after water conditions became too rough, said Dutchess County Sheriff’s Capt. John Watterson.
The search is expected to resume Sunday.
Neither kayaker was wearing a life preserver at the time of the incident. No criminality was suspected, Watterson said.
Lennox, who had her first solo art show at a SoHo gallery in March, was uninjured and was not taken to a hospital, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.
The New York City-based couple have been dating for several years.
A spokesman for Annie Lennox, reached early Sunday, said he just heard about the accident and was trying to get more information.
The mishap took place about 60 miles north of the area of another Hudson River kayaking incident earlier this year.
Vincent Viafore, 46, disappeared during an April 19 kayaking trip with his fiancée Angelika Graswald, 35.
Graswald told cops she tried but failed to save Viafore after his kayak accidentally capsized.
But prosecutors said Graswald later admitted to tampering with the kayak as part of a murderous plot to collect on his $250,00 life insurance policy.
Prosecutors said she confessed to police investigators that “it felt good knowing he was going to die.”
The Latvian-born beauty pleaded not guilty to seconddegree murder and second-degree manslaughter.