Domesticity diva Martha Stewart is “blatantly lying” when she claims that her ex-husband, longtime New York publisher Andrew Stewart, was gay. Unaware that he has cheated on her During their tumultuous 30-year marriage, a source tells The Post exclusively.
A close confidant of Andy’s told me, “Andy was certainly well aware of any and all of Martha’s affairs and pseudo-affairs and her many flirtations from day one.” “He knew about all the men who were in and out of her life, real or imaginary. But there was no secret lover, as Martha says. Andy knew everything about what Martha was doing, he knew about every man.
According to the insider, “Andy is very angry with Martha”. Using him and their failed marriage – Who ended more than three decades ago – to promote “martha“The much-hyped Netflix documentary about his life begins airing on Wednesday.
In promotion of the film, 83-year-old Martha admits to cheating on Andy during their marriage. She claims it was “very easy” to keep their alleged affair a secret from him for nearly three decades, advising viewers, “You have to be cautious” – meaning being careful and not willing to take risks.
As the author ofjust sweets,” in my New York Times bestseller about Martha, I revealed that she was a real risk-taker when it came to indiscretions outside her marriage.
Among other incidents, sources told me how Martha once eloped for a night with a handsome stranger whom she and Andy had met on their honeymoon in England, leaving her groom shocked and forced to sleep alone. Was forced to. Later, she will reportedly Host swinger-like pool parties – Flirting and making out with male guests – Turkey Hill, Westport, Conn. In 2007, the estate was popularized in her magazine, Martha Stewart Living, and on her TV show.
“The man pursuing Martha, or his involvement, real or imagined, was never a secret to Andy or to the couple’s close friends,” the insider alleged. “As Martha grows older, she will do anything for publicity and to remain in the public eye, even bragging publicly about cheating on her husband. This is all very strange. Only a woman with little or no morals, with no respect for the sanctity of marriage, could brag like this to promote a film about herself and attract media attention.
Married in 1961, Stewart had a daughter, Alexis, five years later. But as Martha’s fame and independence grew, the marriage fell apart. The Stewarts separated in 1987 and their acrimonious divorce was finalized in 1990.
Andy, now 80, later married Martha’s assistant Robin Fairclough, but that relationship also ended in divorce. He is now married for the third time, while Martha remains unmarried.
According to sources, Martha reportedly denigrated him in front of others, calling him “boring, disgusting, worthless” and treating him more like a bland servant than a husband, which many believe was a result of Martha’s early publishing successes. Considered the brain behind.
During one of those verbal altercations, as described in my book, Martha claimed that she had slept with another man during a business trip to Los Angeles. Andy was shocked, but Martha dismissed the claimed effort as “a one-time thing…insignificant…uninteresting…just an experiment.”
But others in the Stewart family at the time, such as author Jonathan Fast, novelist Erica Jong’s third husband, were known to play around with Martha – sometimes in the hot tub outside Fast’s bedroom.
A male friend of Martha’s recalled about those meetings, “People were getting naked and making noise.” Similar strange activity occurred at Stewart’s home.
On one occasion at Turkey Hill, Fast recalled, “Martha spent the entire evening flirting with a very good-looking and very successful married banker. The teasing was extremely blatant and offensive. I felt neglected because Martha wasn’t flirting with me. She was very good looking, but she always seemed very quiet, manipulative and strangulated.”
She added, Erica thought Martha was a bitch.
While Martha recently claimed that she kept the affair with Andy a secret “for 30 years”, Erica Jong, who was Martha’s classmate at Barnard College, believed otherwise.
“I always heard that she was involved with people, she had a lot of affairs,” Jong said.
The Post has contacted Martha’s rep for comment.
While on her way to the top, Martha briefly became a stockbroker, and as one colleague recalled, used her feminine wiles and her “great legs” to generate business. Brian Dennehy, a married stockbroker and co-worker who later became a popular actor, flipped for her.
The two became close and Dennehy called this a “strong mutual attraction”; He also told me that he couldn’t take his eyes off her. “In those days, she was thin and beautiful and very sexy,” Dennehy said.
While Dennehy claimed to have never had an affair, he admitted, “I would fantasize about being involved with her.”
Andy reportedly suspected that his wife’s boss, Andy Mones, of the firm Mones, Williams & Sidell, also had a “thing” for Martha. Mones denied any affair, saying of her: “Martha was my dream girl. He had magic.”
At one point, fed up with her flirting and teasing, Andy was reportedly married to one of Martha’s most ardent followers, millionaire Andrew J. He faced Stein, who once ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York. Stein told me he sent her flowers and took her for drinks at Raffles, a romantic private club at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel.
Stein called it “playful flirting” and Martha was pleased by the attention. He thought she “looked very nice, and her reaction to me was quite friendly.”
But an angry Andy finally gets it. When Stein went too far in calling Martha, he told meAndy finally warned over the phone: “Keep the f*** away from my wife!”
And Stein did.
Later, as a divorcee looking for Mr. Right, Martha pursues her old stockbroker friend Dennehy, who by then was a successful actor, apparently hoping for a relationship.
Stewart’s old friend Kathy Tatlock told me, “I thought she had this idea of hooking up with him and showing Andy that she was still viable.” “She said she always thought Dennehy was a very attractive guy.”
By chance, Martha met him in New York. He found her even more “alive” than before, and took her to a premiere and after-party.
“It’s not such a bad thing to have that on your arm,” Dennehy recalled.
But it was never anything more than that.
Why?
As Dennehy told me: “Martha is one of those women who scares men.”
