List of Salman Rushdie’s four ex-wives, Padma Lakshmi, his ex-wife was sighted in New York City hours after he was stabbed
He was formerly married to Clarissa Luard, American author Marianne Wiggins, and writer Elizabeth West in addition to model Padma Lakshmi.
Here is a list of Salman Rushdie’s four ex-wives. Padma Lakshmi, his ex-wife, was sighted in New York City hours after he was stabbed.
Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born British-American author who won the Booker Prize, had a complicated love life. CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK. The author of “Midnight’s Children” had been married four times previously, but none of them endured. Model Padma Lakshmi, an Indian-American, was his last wife. In reality, Lakshmi was observed out and about in New York City wearing a face mask, glasses, and a denim sweater just hours after her ex-husband Rushdie was stabbed.
Rushdie, who was being attacked by Hadi Matar, 24, as he prepared to deliver a lecture on stage for the CHQ 2022 conference in Chautauqua, upstate New York, on Friday, August 12, is currently being kept alive by a ventilator. Rushdie endured threats against his life for many years after the 1988 publication of “The Satanic Verses.” The contentious book was outlawed in Iran, and Ayatollah Khomeini had set a $3.3 million premium on the author’s head.
Clarissa Luard
In 1976, Rushdie married Clarissa Luard. They first connected at a concert in 1969. In 1974, she started working as a publicity manager for the London publishing business Paul Elek while cohabitating with the at-the-time unpublished author. Rushdie and Clarissa were wed from 1976 until 1987, and their son Zafar was born in 1979. Rushdie divorced his first wife in the middle of the 1980s and moved in with Australian author Robyn Davidson, whom he had met through Chatwin.
Cancer claimed Luard’s life in 1999. Rushdie stated in a 2016 interview with Big Issue Magazine, “I do really regret the dissolution of my first union with the mother of my oldest son, Zafar. She tragically passed away when he was 19 years old, and by that point, we had actually succeeded in reestablishing a strong friendship. I was in the hospital with her on the day of her death, holding her hand. The connection survived the dissolution of the marriage.” He went on to say, “We were quite young when we started dating, and throughout the period of fifteen years, we developed into different people. But we were able to split up pretty amicably.”
Rushdie married American author Marianne Wiggins in 1988 after divorcing Clarissa. When the fatwa demanding Rushdie’s execution for his book “The Satanic Verses” was issued, the couple was in Lodon. Before getting divorced in 1993, the two went into hiding together.
For his book “John Dollar,” Wiggins, a well-known novelist, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in 1989. In 2003, her book “Evidence of Things Unseen” made the National Book Award finalist list.
Elizabeth West
On August 26, 2008, in London, England, Indian-British author Salman Rushdie leaves the High Court with his ex-wife Elizabeth West and their child Milan Rushdie. Former police officer Ron Evans, Evans’ ghost writer, and John Blake Publishing Ltd. all issued an apology to Salman Rushdie for allegations made about him and his ex-wife in the memories of his former Special Branch bodyguard.
Rushdie married fellow author Elizabeth West in 1997 following his second divorce. They worked together on Rushdie’s book “Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947-1997,” which she co-edited. In 1997, Rushdie and West welcomed their second child together, Milan. In 2004, the two were divorced.
Padma Lakshmi
The most problematic of Rushdie’s four marriages was to model and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi. In her biography “Love, Loss, and What We Ate,” Lakshmi, who is 23 years his junior, published a mocking account of their eight-year relationship. In 1999, media mogul Tina Brown hosted a spectacular dinner in New York City when the two first met. Rushdie allegedly assured Lakshmi that they had an affair and that he would leave his third wife if their union ended.
Rushdie’s 2001 book, “Fury,” was written with Lakshmi in mind. 2004 saw their wedding and 2007 saw their divorce. Rushdie was 51 and Lakshmi was 28 at the time of the nuptials. Rushdie was characterised by Lakshmi as a “insecure and insensitive pampered infant who needed constant praise, nourishment, and care, as well as frequent sex,” in her memoir.