Model and foodie Elettra Wiedemann, the fashion darling daughter of screen icon Isabella Rossellini, has split with her husband of three years, restaurateur James Marshall.
Elettra, a New York-based former fashion model and the founder of food blog impatientfoodie.com, and Marshall, the British co-owner of Greenwich Village restaurant Whitehall and the founder of Happy Marshall Productions, are telling friends their marriage is over.
The beautiful pair married in 2012 at Beth Israel Hospital after Elettra’s paternal grandmother suffered a stroke and celebrated with a party at his restaurant.
A source confirmed to Page Six: “Elettra and James are divorcing. She has been spending the summer focusing on her work as executive food editor of Refinery29, her Web site Impatient Foodie and writing a book. She has also been traveling and spending time with her mother, Isabella, at the family home on the south shore of Long Island.”
Another source said news of her split came as a shock to friends who saw them as a perfect couple.
Her rep declined to comment.
Elettra is the daughter of Rossellini and former model and Microsoft design manager Jonathan Wiedemann, who were married from 1983 to 1986 after meeting at a Calvin Klein photo shoot. Her maternal grandparents were Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini.
She met Marshall at a 2007 ball hosted by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at Britain’s Hampton Court Palace, the home of King Henry VIII, just before Marshall moved to New York, where Elettra was born and raised.
Their wedding, covered in Vogue and Hello magazine, happened at Beth Israel’s ICU ward. They had planned to wed at City Hall, followed by a party at Whitehall, but her grandmother suffered a stroke two days before the planned date.
Elettra told manrepeller.com, “Thankfully, one of my mom’s best friends is one of the head nurses there, so he arranged for us to have a secret side room that was empty. It was full of defibrillators and heart attack posters.”