There comes a time in every breakup that you have to start putting the pieces of your single life back together. You may make some odd choices along the way, might aim too high or too low, but eventually you even out, right? You arrive back at some kind of stasis.
So what are our most famous single guys up to? Are they relearning to stand alone rather than in a unit? How are they filling their time these days? Have they settled yet?
Here’s just a sample: For his part, Alex Rodriguez is out here getting lunch with his boys, or rather with an assistant and Jennifer Lopez’s voice coach, it looks like, at a Miami restaurant. He and Lopez recently broke up, and last week Lopez was seen with her ex-fiancé Ben Affleck in Montana. As seen in a clip on Page Six, when a videographer asked Rodriguez outside that restaurant, “Did you know they were in Montana together?” he responded with, “Go Yankees.”
Wow, how soon you forget you tried to buy the Mets with your former fiancée.
On his own Instagram, he’s posting a lot of family (“Date night with my girls” and a Mother’s Day post on Mother’s Day), and also some ’fit pics, like the one from Tuesday. It’s two photos, really, one where he wears a suit followed by a more casual look. In the caption, he wrote, “Which fits me best? All business or cocktail hour chill? #talktome.” How is Rodriguez doing? He’s simply asking you to talk to him. Please. #talktome.
And then there’s Bill Gates, who is getting a divorce from Melinda Gates, and now “hiding out,” in Page Six’s words, at the club. The golf club. The Vintage Club in Indian Wells, California, specifically. He has a private home there and has been there for “around three months,” according to the tabloid’s anonymous source. There really wasn’t enough space in the 66,000-square-foot house for the both of them.
Another famous single guy is Jeff Bezos, who divorced in 2019 and is still dating Lauren Sanchez by all accounts, and whose “new superyacht heralds roaring market for big boats,” per Bloomberg. He’s not on the yacht, just building it. And once that’s done, then he’ll be really divorced.
Hitting the links, yachts, “Go Yankees.” Coping mechanisms come in many forms. Every breakup leaves someone picking up the pieces, and sometimes those pieces include a big boat. Maybe one day they can all sail and then chopper over to Bill’s house to catch a game, or buy up different teams, and play each other, their own personal billionaires’ (and millionaire’s) fantasy baseball. Whatever helps make moving on any easier.
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