Who is Candace Bushnell dating? 'Sex and the City' author, 63, linked to 21-year-old model
Candace Bushnell, the 63-year-old author of 'Sex and the City', is reportedly dating a 21-year-old model. According to Page Six, the author met her latest partner during a Fashion Week exhibit this spring, and "she's been taking him everywhere" since then, according to a socialite insider. The identity of the young model still remains unknown.
One of Candace's friend acknowledged that she's been 'talking' to her young beau, while simultaneously being chased by another suitor. The second candidate for Bushnell's heart is said to be 91 years old, but nothing else about him was revealed. Bushnell was previously married to New York City Ballet principal Charles Askegard, 53, who is ten years younger than her.
They married in 2002, barely eight weeks after meeting. However, the couple separated in 2012. Bushnell has also dated Spin publisher and Penthouse heir Bob Guccione Jr, senator Al D'Amato, Talk magazine co-founder Ron Galotti, model Michael Bergin, and British venture financier Stephen Morris. In December, the author stated that she was single. “I’m not dating,” she told People, “And I’m not in a relationship, and that’s fine. I’m not saying that I won’t in the future, but I think the reality is when you get older, you’re not so worried about it.”
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She told the 'Bradshaw Boys' podcast that she had a date with John Corbett, who played Aidan in the HBO series, but she didn't pursue it because he was dating Bo Derek, whom he subsequently married. She responded, "You can't compete with Bo Derek."
Bushnell also talked about her divorce battle in an interview with The Guardian, revealing: "When I got divorced, I couldn't get a mortgage; I didn't fit into a computer model. All of a sudden, I was invited to no more couple things. Being single is hard and there's something a bit heroic about it."
Candace is best known for her weekly column 'Sex and the City', which inspired the popular HBO series and films about Manhattan's dating scene. The fashion-forward columnist began writing about her late-night rendezvous as a single woman for her New York Observer column 'Sex and the City' in 1994. Her stories about being single were so popular that they were turned into the bestselling 'Sex and the City' anthology, which inspired the successful HBO series of the same name starring Sarah Jessica Parker in the 1990s. The romantic comedy also generated two feature films.