Page Six hears that brownstone power couple Emily Gould and Keith Gessen — who announced their divorce last October — have decided to stay together after all.
Almost exactly a year ago we reported that the one-time enfant terrible of Gawker and novelist Gessen were involved in a messy split.
Now, it seems, they’re back on, and have even bought a new ring to make it re-official.
Page Six is told they actually only split for a few months, and were reunited by December 2022.
They married in 2014.
Making matters a trifle awkward, Gould had asked her newsletter readers for $20,000 to fund the divorce. Which makes us wonder what happens to the cash now they’re back to wedded bliss.
“[Divorce] turns out to be very expensive, and I don’t have access to very much money now,” Gould wrote in her “Emily Gould Can’t Complain” newsletter last October, asking for contributions to the “cause of me escaping my marriage with my custody and sanity in tact.” (They share two young sons).
On Thursday, Gould told us: “I returned the money newsletter readers donated, unless they specifically asked me not to.”
In the same edition of “Can’t Complain,” Gould wrote that she was taking “an infinite hiatus from hetero marriage and monogamy.”
“They are a trap for women, full stop,” the “Hex Education” author wrote. “Sometimes a trap can be cozy. Mine was, until it wasn’t.”
We asked her Thursday if — given the news of their reunion — she had since revised her view of hetero monogamy or simply decided to return to her “cozy trap.”
“We just went to a lot of couples therapy,” she told us.
A profile of Gould, 41, and Gessen, 48, in New York Magazine in May 2022 hinted at difficulties in the marriage.
The piece, which was part of the promotion for Gessen’s third book, “Raising Raffi: The First Five Years,” said the couple was “battling creative territorialism and envy,” and it suggested they were tight for money. The book explored the couple’s experiences raising their oldest child.
Gould had previously written about how their relationship was shaken shortly before their wedding when Gessen revealed that he had donated sperm to his sibling’s partner, who had become pregnant. His sibling is the author Masha Gessen.
Gessen is also a co-founder of n+1 magazine and an assistant professor of magazine journalism at Columbia University. Gould writes features for New York Mag.
