I TIED THE ‘NOT’ IN PAGE 6 NUPS
Socialite squirms in big-bucks battle
A Page Six item does not a marriage make.
So says New York realestate queen Janna Bullock, whose elegant Venetian “nuptials” to her former longtime assistant were exclusively reported by The Post’s gossip column in 2013.
Even though her own publicist gave Page Six the details of the event — at which Bullock wore a $20,000 white Chanel wedding gown and traded rings with her beau — the socialite insists they were never actually married.
“An announcement in Page Six is not a marriage,’’ Bullock sniffed outside Manhattan court Monday as she and her exaide and grounds caretaker, Randall Brockett, 53, duked it out over his divorce filing.
Bullock’s lawyer, Nancy Chemtob, insisted, “There was a fling in Venice, no different than Vegas. There was never a legal marriage.”
But Brockett lamented outside court, “I loved her. We married in a beautiful Eastern Orthodox ceremony in Venice.”
At stake is a portion of Bullock’s multimilliondollar for tune, which she made at least partly by flipping mansions in the city with her RIGroup.
More importantly, if she acknowledges the union, the Russianborn Bullock would likely have to reveal financial details about her empire for a settlement — and that could be the death knell for her case as she fights massive fraud charges back in her homeland.
The former Guggenheim Museum board member is as known for her cagey business savvy as her eccentricities.
She once made a motorcycle trip through Russia with Dennis Hopper and Jeremy Irons — and reportedly owns two table lamps made out of hu man hair. She calls them Rita and Elisa.
Brockett’s lawyer, Anne Peyton Bryant, acknowledged the pair never got a marriage license but noted there’s case law that says a union can be considered legal even without one, particularly if there’s a religious ceremony.
Bullock and her third husband, former Moscow Regional Finance Minister Alexei Kuznetsov, are accused of embezzling at least $26 million in Russian state funds.
He is in custody in Paris, while Bullock, a US citizen, is still playing legal dodgeball with Russian authorities.