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We can’t Handel the scandal!
In a dishy new book, Anya Gillinson spills the b-flat majors on her affair with now-husband Sir Clive Gillinson, the famed director of Carnegie Hall, which scandalized Uptown in 2018.
In a shockingly honest account in “Dreaming In Russian,” attorney Anya says that after meeting Clive at a dinner, she googled him and learned he was “a solid thirty years older than [her]” and a married father of three. “That last bit of information only whetted my appetite,” she writes. Holy Mozart!
When Anya and Clive married, Page Six quoted a source saying: “When he left his wife, Penny, the mother of his three grown children and a real lady, it was a scandal. And when his friends met Anya, they were shocked. She’s so young and pretty.”
Clive’s divorce from Penny was finalized in October 2018. He and Anya married at Cipriani Wall Street that December.
Sir Clive Gillinson (right), the famed director of Carnegie Hall, had a high-profile affair. Bloomberg via Getty Images
Anya — who was married to Sam Melzer when she met the Carnegie boss — says that she and Clive first hooked up when Penny was back home in the UK and a New Year’s kiss “seamlessly morphed into a that broke the rules of propriety.”
After it, Sir Clive told her: “You’re going to be my disaster.”
“Everything we did was immoral, and bad, and even illegal in some jurisdiction, but we had fallen in love and therefore morality had carved out an exception for us,” she writes, “I didn’t care to know then, nor do I care to ponder now, because it is useless to pretend that romantic love has anything to do with morality.”
Anya Gillinson (left) spills the b-flat majors on her affair in her dishy new book. Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com/Shutterstock
After they’d got together, Anya says that Clive told her his marriage “was pretty much over soon after the birth of their first child.”
Meanwhile, she told him of her own marriage: “There was nothing but habit… that held it together.”
The book — which also covers her childhood in Russia and the death of her father — is out now on Skyhorse Publishing.
