Phil Collins ex-wife Orianne Cevey 'had two-year close friendship with a male stripper'

Phil Collins' ex-wife Orianne Cevey allegedly had a two-year 'close friendship' with a male stripper while living with the Genesis frontman, and before marrying a third man in Vegas. Orianne Cevey had a two-year 'close friendship' with male model and stripper Preston Thompson while living with the Genesis frontman Collins and Cevey divorced in 2008 but rekindled their romance in 2015 and had been presenting themselves as a married couple, though never actually tied the knot for a second time. Cevey abruptly broke off the friendship with Thompson in May, three months before marrying Tom Bates Swiss-born Cevey met Collins in 1994, when she was 21 and he was 44 and going through a bitter divorce from his second wife, Jill. Collins and Cevey married in 1999, divorced in 2008 in the largest celebrity settlement of its time, got back together in 2015, but are now on the rocks again But earlier this year the relationship fell apart once again with the news that Cevey had skipped town to Vegas - claiming to have been on a business trip, while actually marrying Bates in a 20-minute ceremony officiated by an Elvis impersonator.