{"id":6333,"date":"2026-06-22T10:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/hotelier-and-ex-st-barts-leaders-long-standing-feud-explained-how-uma-thurman-is-involved-book\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:58:23","slug":"hotelier-and-ex-st-barts-leaders-long-standing-feud-explained-how-uma-thurman-is-involved-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/hotelier-and-ex-st-barts-leaders-long-standing-feud-explained-how-uma-thurman-is-involved-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotelier and ex-St. Barts leader&#8217;s long-standing feud explained &#8212; how Uma Thurman is involved: book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2Fst-barts-hotelier-politician-feud-comp.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A new book reveals a bizarre feud between Andr\u00e9 Balazs and the former political leader of St. Barts \u2014 with the hotelier claiming the pol sabotaged his attempt to build a hotel on the island. A new book reveals a bizarre feud between Andr\u00e9 Balazs and the former political leader of St. Barts \u2014 with the hotelier claiming the pol sabotaged his attempt to build a hotel on the island.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cTreasured Island: The Story of St. Barth. . . and its Barbarians, Billionaires and Beauties,\u201d author Michael Gross claims the beef began decades ago when Balazs was dating Uma Thurman, and the Standard founder claims local big Bruno Magras tipped off paparazzi when the couple came to the island. (Balazs dated the Hollywood legend from 2003 until 2007.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Andre Balazs and Uma Thurman in 2006.  <span class=\"credit\">Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Former St. Barts leader Bruno Magras in 2017. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But it got uglier, according to Balazs \u2014 who has owned the Chateau Marmont in LA, the Mercer Hotel in Soho, Sunset Beach in the Hamptons and the Chiltern Firehouse in Lon don, among others \u2014 when he tried to build an eco-hotel behind the dunes of the famous nude beach Saline.<\/p>\n<p>The project was sunk when 1,200 island residents signed a petition opposing it.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Still, Balazs now alleges to Gross the real problem was that Magras made a deal with a new island homeowner, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, to expand his nearby property instead of backing the hotel.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Author Mike Gross wrote about the feud.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Magras dismissed Balazs\u2019 accusations as \u201cintellectual masturbation\u201d and, oddly, \u201ccat food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Offered the last word by Gross, Balazs stuck to his story of \u201ccorruption so severe\u201d his lawyer \u201ccouldn\u2019t penetrate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He still owns the land, he says. \u201cI guess I can camp out on it one day,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Andre Balazs with Uma Thurman in 2015. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The book, from Harper Collins, is out now. Gross is the author of nearly a dozen books on the American upper classes, including \u201cFlight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America\u2019s Original Ruling Class,\u201d \u201cFocus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers\u201d and \u201cRogues\u2019 Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/22\/society\/hotelier-and-ex-st-barts-leaders-long-standing-feud-explained-how-uma-thurman-is-involved-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book reveals a bizarre feud between Andr\u00e9 Balazs and the former political leader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/st-barts-hotelier-politician-feud-comp.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}