Paulson fete with wife – & gal pal
JUST days before the news broke that John Paulson is getting divorced, the hedge-fund billionaire took his wife to a posh awards dinner held in his honor — and his girlfriend showed up, too.
Paulson — who famously made $20 billion shorting the US housing market before the 2008 crash — was seated near the front alongside his wife of 21 years, Jenny Paulson, at the Manhattan Institute’s 2021 Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street, attendees told The Post.
Meanwhile, a few tables back at the Sept. 10 bash sat Alina de Almeida, the 33year-old Instagram nutritionist who lately has been dating Paulson and sharing his Fifth Avenue apartment, as Page Six revealed last week. De Almeida told fellow dinner guests she was a “friend” of the 65-year-old Wall Street tycoon, a person at the table told The Post.
De Almeida raised eyebrows at the table as she dished about a past fling with a former Blackstone executive, sources said. According to one attendee, the certified dietitian detailed how the fling with another billionaire had taken her to Michelin-starred restaurants across America and Europe.
A rep for Paulson — whose divorce is expected to cost him billions, as he doesn’t have a prenup and 50-year-old Jenny is said to be in talks with celebrity attorney Robert S. Cohen — declined to comment. The Manhattan Institute declined to comment. De Almeida and Jenny Paulson’s lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.
Paulson received the Hamilton Award at the dinner, which celebrates “leaders . . . who have made remarkable things happen in the realms of public policy, culture, and philanthropy,” according to the Institute’s Web site.