Paul Simon’s Daughter Slams Richard Gere for Selling Childhood Home

Just in case anyone is wondering, Lulu Simon still hates Richard Gere.

On Tuesday, the pop artist took to social media to blast Gere for selling her childhood home after allegedly agreeing to take care of the property when purchasing the estate from her father, “Mrs. Robinson” singer Paul Simon. In a post shared to Instagram Stories, Lulu claimed Gere “bought my childhood home, promised he would take care of the land as condition of his purchase,” and then “proceeded to never actually move in & just sold it to a developer as 9 separate plots.”

According to Realtor.com, Hudson Valley House Parts was tasked in May to save historic parts of the 1938 brick Colonial after it was sold to SBP Homes last year for $10.75 million when Gere and his wife, Alejandra Silva, moved to Spain.

Elsewhere in her Instagram post, Lulu wrote, “Just in case anyone was wondering if I still hate Richard Gere–I do!” To really drive her point home, Lulu took a photo of Gere with images of dogs and a cat in the background and captioned the photo: “I hope my dead pets buried in that back yard haunt you until you descend into a slow and unrelenting madness.”

The Pretty Woman woman star and his wife Silva purchased the 32-acre property from Paul Simon in 2022 and had originally sought to convert a majority of the land into a farm. During a 2023 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, when the couple still owned the house, their lawyer David Rucci assured the commission that the historical property would not be turned into commercial real estate.

“I have received phone calls from four or five neighbors (who were) very concerned … if this was going to be some sort of big commercial operation, and it’s really not,” Rucci said at the time, per local paper, the New Canaan Advertiser. “The owners … they both have grown up on farms, they’re very interested in farms and teaching their kids about farms … so this is really important to them.”