After rumors spread that Joel was cheating, which Joel denied, the marriage fell apart, and the couple called it quits in 1994.

Author: Eudie Pak Publish date: Feb 10, 2020 Photo: David McgoughDMIThe LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images You can have all the money in the world, you can have mansions, you can have properties, you can have yachts, you can have limousines, you can have motorcycles, Billy Joel told his official biographer Fred Schruers.

Even though Joel has reached the upper echelons of status, wealth and celebrity, the singer admits that the one thing he struggles with is love.

However, he was very good at spinning his heartache into chart-topping hits, and despite his romantic failures, Joel remains hopeful.

You just need one one person out of millions to know and accept and love you for being, well, just the way you are, he told Schruers.

I see old folks walking down the street who look like theyve been together 50 years, and theres something very touching about it that theyve lasted so long.

I used to wonder: How come I dont have that I can dream about it, think about it, write music and lyrics and sing about it.

Three divorces later, Joel decided to walk down the aisle once again in 2015 to his fourth wife, former hedge fund manager, Alexis Roderick.

Yet despite having his heart broken, Joel has managed to be on good terms with each of his ex-wives: Elizabeth Weber (married from 1973-1982), Christie Brinkley (married from 1985-1994) and Katie Lee (2004-2010).

Here are the love stories behind some of Joels famous tunes: Just the Way You Are, Shes Got a Way and Shes Always a Woman were inspired by Elizabeth Weber Elizabeth Weber and Billy Joel Photo: David McgoughDMIThe LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images Falling in love with and marrying his first wife, Weber, was arguably the costliest relationship Joel ever had.

Joel met Weber when she was married to his bandmate Jon Small in 1970.

Her independence and straight-talking style made Joel smitten from the start.

The two began having an affair, but Weber ended up leaving both men, causing Joel, then aged 21, to become suicidal; he even wound up in a mental institution for a few weeks, according to the New York Times.

She convinced him to let her manage him, and the couple married in 1973.

While Joel was madly in love with Weber and wrote the songs Shes Got a Way and Shes Always a Woman for her, Weber had no shame in directly asking him if shed receive earnings on the backend for being his muse.

One year, for Webers birthday, Joel wrote her the song Just the Way You Are, and after he played it for her she said, Do I get the publishing, too Before the couple divorced in 1982, Joel made the grave mistake of allowing Webers brother, Frank, also work for him.

I hooked up with the Borgias Joel said in his official biography.

Supermodel Christie Brinkley inspired This Is the Time and the album An Innocent Man Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel in 1990.

Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd.Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images After his divorce from Weber, Joel went to St.

He began playing at a piano bar, and it was there he met supermodels Elle MacPherson, Christie Brinkley and an up-and-coming singer, Whitney Houston.

When 33-year-old Joel returned to his Central Park penthouse in New York, he was shocked to see that MacPherson, who was just 19, and Brinkley, 28, were competing for his affections.

The couple married in 1985 and Joels album An Innocent Man was inspired by his relationship with Brinkley.

Because the Piano Man had suffered a huge financial setback from his legal battle with Frank, he was forced to go on tour nonstop, which created distance between him and his supermodel wife.

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