John Oates says he 'should never have been married' to model
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John Oates, of Hall & Oates, recalled a time when he went from owning four homes and a private plane to having just $50 in his wallet.
Oates reveals in his new memoir, “Change of Seasons,” that his lavish lifestyle left him broke.
In the book, he hints his ex-manager Tommy Mottola and lawyer Allen Grubman are to blame for not warning him and his bandmate Daryl Hall that they were overspending.
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“I just wish they’d warned us that the high life we were living would have financial consequences,” he writes, according to People magazine. “We weren’t cheated; we were seduced.”
The rocker eventually reclaimed a lot of his fortune through royalties he was owed.
Oates also reveals in the tell-all that he regrets his marriage to Nancy Hunter.
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“I should never have been married in the ’80s,” the rocker writes. “She was a successful model and I was running around the world like I was single.”
He said by the time the ‘90s rolled around he needed to make a change, so he shaved off his signature mustache.
“No one will ever understand how much that mustache affected my life,” he writes. “It was so much a part of who I had become.”
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“Change of Seaons: A Memoir” will be available for purchase on March 28.