Carol Alt is keeping busy, writing books and posing for Playboy

Posted by mija on Nov 16, 2008 in News | 0 comments

Carol Alt isn’t hiding.
Two weeks ago, the supermodel lost a bruising court fight with ex-hubby and former New York Ranger Ron Greschner.
Now, she’s talking to the Daily News exclusively about life, love, hockey players – Greschner and her new beau, former New York Islander Alexei Yashin – and her photo spread in December’s Playboy magazine.
“I’m working like crazy,” said the stunning 47-year-old. “I have four books out; a skin-care line. I’m shooting movies. I mean, I’m working like nuts.”
In terms of money, Alt lost the case, but she noted that it had finally closed the book on her divorce – and lets her move on.
“The first thing I said when I came out of the courthouse was, ‘It’s freedom,'” she recalled. “Regardless of what the outcome was, I understand who this man is, and it’s freedom for me.”
After 18 years of marriage, Alt and Greschner divorced in 2001 because he wanted kids and she can’t conceive after battles with cervical and uterine cancer.
Years later, she sued him for the almost $1 million she claimed he owed her from the sale of his stake in an investment he had made during the marriage.
“I was so overwhelmed,” she admitted. “To me, it was just a business deal, and it had nothing to do with how I felt about Ronnie during the marriage or after.”
As the details of the couple’s finances were laid bare, so were specifics of their breakup, Alt’s health and how, for almost a decade, she had been kept in the dark.
“I just learned, really, a lot about Ronnie and who he is,” Alt said. “That he sold [his shares] in 1999 and just decided not to call me was a surprise. That he didn’t remember any phone calls with me was … I don’t know,” searching for a word, “also surprising.”
Alt still towers, still struts. Her body, she said, is better than it was in her mid 30s, when medical issues nearly brought her modeling career to a screeching halt.
The woman who has appeared on hundreds of magazine covers turned to an all-raw diet. It transformed her, she said, and she’s determined to spread the word.
Her diet is one part of a life she has pieced back together. She “went raw,” as she put it, in the time just before her split from Greschner.
She turned her food philosophy into two books, sought international film roles, competed on “The Celebrity Apprentice” – making it to the top four – and, in her free time, she jets to Russia with boyfriend Yashin, 35, who, after a career in the NHL, plays in a Russian hockey league.
Her last tie to Greschner was the investment she was told would be liquidated in 2007. In January 2007, she ran into her ex at a Rangers game and, after small talk, brought up the business issue.
That’s when she figured out that the money was long gone.
“I wasn’t getting any answers,” she said. “I was compelled, I was forced, into filing to get some answers.”
In the process, she became a target of scrutiny. Her breakup from Greschner was painfully rehashed in the court papers.
“Ronnie always wanted kids,” she explained. “I gave him the choice and he chose to go. … I wanted to be with someone who was happy to be with me.”
Manhattan Federal Court Judge Colleen McMahon ruled that Alt was owed about $160,000, but she couldn’t collect because she had waited too long to file.
Still, Alt said, she harbors no ill will toward Greschner and is just looking forward to the future and a life with Yashin.
“Alexei has just stood by me through thick and thin, through everything that’s happened to me,” she said. “He never wavered, not once.
source: nydailynews.co