Supermodel Paulina Porizkova has clarified why she is leaving her New York apartment only four days before her wedding following an eviction.
The 61-year-old said she initially claimed she was getting kicked out by her landlord, but revealed her lease was simply up and she could not get an extension.
“It’s simply that my lease is up,” Porizkova told Page Six.
“My landlord wouldn’t permit an extension, only a reprisal of a full year.”
Although she claimed her landlord may “not be very nice to a really nice tenant,” she acknowledged that “he’s fully within his rights.”
The glamour girl said she and her TV showrunner fiance Jeff Greenstein, 63, did not want to commit to living at the Manhattan pad for another full year.
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Paulina Porizkova walked back her eviction claim after calling out her New York City apartment landlord for making her “start again.” Picture: Paulina Porizkova/Instagram
Earlier this week, the supermodel said on her and fiance Jeff Greenstein’s podcast that they were “getting kicked out of [their] apartment four days before [their] wedding.” Picture: Paulina Porizkova/Instagram
Porizkova said she begged and pleaded with her unsympathetic landlord to no avail, claiming he was not very nice to a really nice tenant.
She hit out at the landlord on the Twenty Good Summers podcast she shares with Greenstein.
“We are both over 60, and we are starting again,” Porizkova said.
She said the landlord was fully within his rights and that she took accountability for trying to make fun of the situation on her podcast.
The model said she felt like a whiny baby for venting about her privileged people problems but explained that moving triggered severe personal trauma.
Porizkova was a child when she moved from Czechoslovakia to Sweden to reunite with her parents, who had fled as political refugees.
“I have a bit of PTSD about moves,” Porizkova said in an Instagram video.
“The first time I moved, I was nine years old, and I was moved from Czechoslovakia [with] my grandmother — who had acted as my mother for my whole life — to Sweden with my mum and a dad I didn’t know.”
She said the change was hard because she did not know what was happening.
Porizkova clarified the situation. Picture: Paulina Porizkova/Instagram
Porizkova also took accountability for “trying to make fun of the situation.” Picture: Paulina Porizkova/Instagram
The actress described the childhood move as actual trauma and said all subsequent moves felt traumatic.
“My life ended and then it started somewhere else,” she said.
“It’s always been for the better, but when you’re getting shoved off a cliff, you don’t know you’re gonna land in a better place, so of course it’s scary.”
Porizkova moved into the Manhattan apartment six years ago.
She said leaving her “safety zone” felt bittersweet but she was ready to leave because she had Greenstein by her side.
The mother of two said she and the TV producer would be perfectly fine.
Porizkova said she could stay at either her country house in upstate New York or Greenstein’s home in Los Angeles.
The Will & Grace showrunner proposed to Porizkova in July 2025.
She was previously married to late musician Ric Ocasek, with whom she has sons Jonathan Raven, 32, and Oliver Ocasek, 28.
Parts of this story first appeared in Page Six and was republished with permission.
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