A New York Metropolis heiress revealed how her hedge funder husband taunted her in a vindictive telephone name and textual content message after dumping her for a youthful mistress on the peak of the pandemic, in accordance with claims in her new e book.
Flobelle “Belle” Fairbanks Burden — a descendant of New York legends like industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Jay, the primary chief justice of the Supreme Courtroom — says her ex, Henry Davis, cruelly mocked her over the telephone when she burst into tears and demanded to know why he left her.
“He stated in a singsong voice, like a taunting little one, ‘Boo-hoo. Poor Belle. At all times the sufferer,’” Burden, 56, wrote in her new e book, “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage.”
“You had been in a pleasant home on Martha’s Winery. You had every thing you wanted. I paid my share of the payments. What was so onerous about that?” Davis, 60, allegedly hissed in September 2020.
Burden — whose grandmother was socialite and former Vogue editor Babe Paley and whose great-great-uncle was legendary silent-film-era actor Douglas Fairbanks — had simply obtained a heartbreaking letter from Davis submitting for divorce below cutthroat prenuptial phrases, roughly six months after his affair with a 35-year-old colleague was uncovered, she wrote, in accordance with the Day by day Mail.
The letter prompted Burden to angrily name Davis and ask why he’d dumped her and fled their $7.5 million Martha’s Winery property.
“I didn’t depart you. I modified residences,” he allegedly snapped.
Burden — who particulars the explosive breakdown of her decades-long marriage within the e book — stated her former partner additionally lashed out at her in a nasty textual content message shortly after his affair was uncovered.
Davis flew right into a rage over a textual content message he had obtained from Burden’s stepmother, Susan, 78, pleading with him to be “honorable,” Burden stated.
“He was livid. He texted me that, due to what Susan had written, he was going to proceed his affair. He texted me that due to what she had written, he would give me nothing in any respect,” she wrote within the e book.
Burden stated she received a voicemail in early 2020, whereas quarantining along with her household on Martha’s Winery, from a person saying that his spouse had been having an affair along with her husband.
Davis allegedly admitted to dishonest and promised the affair was meaningless — however then modified his thoughts the subsequent morning and ended the wedding, in accordance with the e book.
Burden is the daughter of former New York Metropolis Division of Planning director Amanda Burden and Shirley Carter Burden Jr., the great-great-great-grandson of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt. As a Vanderbilt descendant, she is also a distant cousin of each CNN journalist Anderson Cooper and his mother, the late designer Gloria Vanderbilt.
Her new e book, revealed by Penguin Random Home, has been launched to rave critiques.
Earlier this week, she revealed different searing particulars of their break up, together with that Davis, moments after breaking information of the divorce to their children, allegedly requested her to make him a sandwich.
The couple started courting in 1998 after assembly at a legislation agency the place they labored as legal professionals. Their divorce was finalized in the summertime of 2021.
