Rock legend Phil Collins’ ex-wife Orianne Cevey is auctioning off more of the singer’s valuables, including his personal Yamaha baby grand piano and some of the couple’s wedding gifts from 24 years ago.
Cevey, 49, is selling a collection of jewelry, handbags and other valuables estimated to be worth nearly $4 million.
Among the notable items being auctioned by Miami-based Kodner are a Wurlitzer jukebox and an extensive collection of Chanel items owned by Cevey, who previously boasted of being the fashion house’s main buyer.
Cevey recently went through her third divorce – this time from Tom Bates, a male escort. The couple married in Las Vegas in 2020 without a prenup.
Bates has since claimed that Cevey had a “wild temper”, hid his own possessions from him and threatened to cut off his genitals when he asked for them to be returned.
Orianne Collins, Phil Collins’ ex-wife, is selling $4 million of her possessions that she accumulated during her marriage to the superstar singer
The Yamaha piano has greater sentimental value because Phil used it to teach his 22-year-old son Nicholas to play. The piano alone is expected to sell for between $50,000 and $100,000
The Fort Lauderdale mansion of Orianne Cevey and her estranged husband Tom Bates (pictured in 2021) is currently under foreclosure
The auction, scheduled for December 6, will feature a number of high-end couture items that Cevey acquired during her marriage to Collins, including Chanel clothing, shoes, boots and a wide selection of Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry.
“I was Chanel’s number one customer when I started collecting in 2001, with more than 500 pairs of Chanel shoes in my collection,” Cevey told Page Six, explaining that she is downsizing her home and as a result is parting with many of hers must treasured possessions.
The Wurlitzer jukebox was a gift to the couple when Collins celebrated their wedding in 1999.
The Yamaha piano has even greater sentimental value considering it was used by Phil to teach his 22-year-old son Nicholas to play.
The piano alone is expected to sell for between $50,000 and $100,000.
When they married in 1999, Collins’ manager gave the couple a Wurlitzer jukebox, which is also part of next month’s auction
Various items will be auctioned, including this ornament
The auction, scheduled for December 6, will feature a number of high-end couture items that Cevey acquired during her marriage to Collins, including Chanel clothing and jewelry
The pieces sold also include jewelry valued at more than $20,000
“The auction is a unique opportunity to acquire some of the most personal and iconic items from Phil and Orianne Collins’ private collection,” said Russ Kodner, President of Kodner Auction Gallery.
A “large portion” of the proceeds will be donated to the Never Give Up Foundation, which supports people with disabilities such as spinal muscular atrophy.
Cevey and Collins split in 2008 before briefly reuniting between 2016 and 2019.
With the final divorce in December 2021, they finally called it quits.
The couple has two children together, while Collins has three other children from previous marriages.
Cevey, meanwhile, had to foreclose on her $6 million Florida home in June after her bitter divorce from her third husband, Tom Bates.
The home finally sold in August for $7.75 million.
Cevey, who still goes by her married name Collins, was married to British rock singer Phil Collins from 1999 to 2006. They can be seen together in the picture in 2016
Cevey – who received a $47 million payout from Genesis legend Collins in their 2008 divorce – showered Bates with gifts of clothing, watches and a $340,000 leased Aston Martin with license plate TB 007 James Bond style.
Just months earlier, she had been living with Collins at his $40 million oceanfront mansion in Miami Beach after reuniting with him in 2016.
However, she blindsided Collins, 72, by moving into the palatial apartment with Bates after the couple’s secret wedding in Las Vegas while the “In The Air Tonight” singer was out of the country and on tour in Europe.
She even hired security guards to keep the rocker out of his own home.
Collins then got the couple kicked out, after which they moved into a six-bedroom mansion in Fort Lauderdale before things eventually fell apart for the duo.
Cevey, a Swiss woman 23 years her junior, met Collins, her first husband, while working on the singer’s tour in 1994. They have two sons together, Matthew and Nicholas (pictured in 2018)
In December 2021, Cevey announced her divorce from Bates, blaming the pandemic for their failed marriage.
exclusively revealed that Cevey picked Bates up from a male escort website where he advertised himself as a “sexy intellectual” with degrees in philosophy and political science.
But when she moved him into Collins’ mansion, their heated relationship led to her physically attacking her new husband “on several occasions” – once threatening to cut off his “private parts,” according to his divorce documents.
Bates claims he allegedly received threats to cut off his genitals after returning to the couple’s new Fort Lauderdale mansion after spending Thanksgiving 2021 with his parents at their home in nearby Lighthouse Point.
When he arrived, he found that Orianne had “secretly removed” his clothes and other possessions and demanded them back.
Orianne and former tribute band musician Bates enjoyed living together in their new Fort Lauderdale apartment until he left her shortly before divorce proceedings began in December 2021 and she was left paying the bills
The couple, who lived in Phil Collins’ Miami mansion in 2020, moved to a six-bedroom waterfront property in Fort Lauderdale (pictured) in 2021 before splitting later in the year
The couple, who lived in Phil Collins’ Miami mansion in 2020, moved to this six-bedroom waterfront property in Fort Lauderdale in 2021 before splitting, blaming the pandemic
“The woman, who has a wild temper, threatened her husband with bodily harm (by cutting off his private parts) when he asked for his clothing and personal property,” his filing states.
“The wife, who has earned a 3rd degree black belt and is trained in boxing, had physically attacked her husband several times before the separation.” At one point, the husband had to yell at the housekeeper to help him leave the house to escape his wife’s attack.
“Husband voluntarily left the marital home for his safety.”
Bates was on the books of a company called Cowboys 4 Angels under the name Ryan when he was in Los Angeles after moving from Florida to get into the music business.
However, he returned to his home state when things didn’t go as planned. It is understood the couple had their first meeting at an exclusive five-star hotel in Miami Beach.