All good things must come to an end, as you already know. Seasons, youth, a pretty good dream. The Dawson’s Creek season six episodes “All Good Things...” and “...Must Come to an End.” (Not Sex and the City, though. That goes on forever.) But something that no one is talking about is that bad things also must come to an end. They gotta! This whole situation we’re in right now, for example, or that man having access to the nuclear codes. A bad trip. A bad dream. It all comes to an end one way or another.
Take an interminable-feeling divorce between a couple of multimillionaires during a worldwide pandemic: Sure, it’s not convenient, nor is it expedient, but it will end. The five-year marriage of Mary-Kate Olsen—formerly one half of America’s preeminent child-star duo, now dressing most of Manhattan in their brand The Row’s streamlined knits—and Olivier Sarkozy—French banker, tall—has reached its legal conclusion, as Us Weekly first reported.
The public first learned of the split in April, at the beginning of the pandemic in New York. Olsen filed an emergency motion for divorce in May, citing the fact that Sarkozy declined to renew the $29,000-a-month lease on an apartment they used to share. He had also reportedly moved his ex-wife and children into their Long Island home. The judge rejected the bid, seeing as the courts were closed and it was deemed nonessential, which waylaid the process.
Things had been nearing a conclusion for a while, and earlier this month, the judge in their case told them over video conference, “So everyone is clear that if we get the agreement, you don’t have to see me, which, as much as I enjoy seeing everyone here, I think you would all prefer to be done with this. Let’s get it done. File the papers and let’s get them divorced. I think that’s the same objective for all of us.”
The sticking point, according to the Daily Mail, was the $13.5 million townhouse on East 49th Street in Manhattan. Which, I don’t know, sounds worth fighting for? It’s 8,000 square feet with 22-foot ceilings (unheard-of in the city and anywhere else); it has seven fireplaces and a private, paparazzi-proof garage. They spent a few million renovating it as well. But alas, as we know, all things, good and bad, must come to an end.
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