Claudia Schiffer's personal secrets: a romance that did not exist, and the only marriage of a supermodel

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

On August 25, one of the world's most successful and famous supermodels, Claudia Schiffer, celebrates her 50th birthday. In her years, she is still in demand in the profession and happy in her personal life - Claudia is married and has three children. For a long time, her reputation was impeccable, because she did not start high-profile novels and did not change the chosen ones, like gloves. But in the 1990s. her name sounded all over the world not because of her professional success, but in connection with the unpleasant story with David Copperfield, in which the supermodel was the main character …

She was called the top model among top models - Claudia Schiffer became the absolute record holder among the representatives of her profession: her face appeared on the covers more than 900 times! In the 1990s. her name thundered all over the world - she was recognized as the highest paid model in the world, she was called one of the ten most beautiful women on the planet. Nevertheless, she managed to find her personal happiness and build a strong family far from the first attempt.

There were no dark spots in her biography - the German model had an impeccable reputation. The press wrote about her that she walks along the catwalk and through life without falling, both literally and figuratively. She, like many models, received unequivocal offers from wealthy fans, but she was not interested in such a relationship. Claudia Schiffer in an interview told how she was once offered a large sum for one date: "".

Claudia Schiffer did not allow herself frivolous intrigues and whirlwind romances with famous artists, like other supermodels. Before marriage, only two of her novels were known, and both of them were supposed to end with a wedding, but for various reasons the engagement had to be terminated. And one of them, according to the documents published in the media, turned out to be a fake at all …

In 1993, Claudia Schiffer became engaged to the world famous American illusionist David Copperfield. They said that they met at his show in Berlin and have not parted since then. For 6 years, they appeared everywhere together and willingly posed in front of the lenses of cameras and camcorders. In one of the interviews, the model admitted: "".

The idyll lasted until at the end of the 1990s. the French magazine "Paris Match" did not publish the text of the agreement, which outlined the terms of their "cooperation": the supermodel had to portray the illusionist's bride in public and not appear in public with other men, for which she received annually very solid material rewards and expensive gifts, which were immediately demonstrated for all to see. The couple was together for so long and looked so happy that many fans of Claudia Schiffer and David Copperfield simply did not believe this information, considering it another newspaper "duck". However, there really were reasons for doubting the sincerity of the feelings of the two world stars.

David Copperfield (real name - David Kotkin) knew how to surprise the audience since childhood - since his grandfather taught him several card tricks. Back in his school years, the boy began to master the skill of an illusionist and at the age of 12 he became the youngest member of the American Society of Magicians. Widespread popularity came to him in the early 1980s, when he hosted the author's show "The Magic of David Copperfield" on television, and then he began performing around the world with large-scale spectacular shows: the disappearance of the Statue of Liberty, the flight over the Grand Canyon, the passage through Great Wall of China, falling from Niagara Falls. A team of 300 people worked on his performances, about 80 engineers were involved in the technical part of the show.

In the 1980s. Copperfield's popularity was simply incredible, and in the 1990s. the situation changed: the illusionist suddenly discovered that after all his dizzying "miracles" he had nothing more to surprise the audience with. In addition, numerous denouncers of the "magician" actively began to explain to the gullible public the secrets of his grandiose hoaxes. As a result, Copperfield's credibility suffered severely, and the show's ratings collapsed. And then the PR manager of the artist Wendy Leyster offered him to sign a contract with supermodel Claudia Schiffer in order to return his name to the front pages of newspapers. Probably, this trick was the most successful: many believed in the romance of the two superstars, their names really flashed in the media, and the illusionist's shows gained great popularity in Western Europe.

When a copy of the contract with the supermodel was published in the magazine, Copperfield, of course, assured everyone that the document was fake, and even filed a lawsuit for publication. His spokesman later announced that the contract did exist, but over time, the couple's business relationship turned into love. Nevertheless, in 1999, the couple still announced the termination of the engagement. This scandal did not significantly affect the reputation of the supermodel - she was still in demand in the profession, but Copperfield's star soon faded away. After that, Claudia Schiffer had an affair with a millionaire from England, director of the Hamilton's gallery in London, Tim Jeffries, but then it did not come to a wedding. A year later, they broke up - rumored to be due to a disagreement over the prenuptial agreement.

In 2001, the supermodel met director and producer Matthew Vaughn, and they got married a year later. The couple had three children. Outside the podium, Claudia bears the name of her husband and the title of Countess, because her husband is the son of Earl George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond. In her only marriage, the model behaves much more cautiously than during her romance with Copperfield - she carefully hides her private life from strangers, rarely uploads family photos on social networks, and even less often appears with her husband in public. Well, probably real happiness really loves silence …

In fact, there were many secrets in her life: What Claudia Schiffer doesn't like to remember.