Whereas presenting producer and long-time collaborator Jack Antonoff with the Producer of the Decade award at Selection’s eighth-annual Hitmakers occasion, Lana Del Rey made a uncommon point out of her husband Jeremy Dufrene, crediting Antonoff’s marriage to actress Margaret Qualley as “a giant cause” why she married the 49-year-old Louisana boat captain.
“I’m grateful for [Antonoff] for the instance he gave me in his marriage to [Margaret Qualley],” Del Rey stated. “I noticed the way in which he checked out her when he met her, and he’s a giant cause why I waited so lengthy to get married, and why I met my wonderful husband.”
Del Rey formally launched Dufrene to the media in September, when she introduced him as her plus-one to the glitzy New York marriage ceremony between mannequin Karen Elson and Lee Foster. Only some weeks afterward Sept. 26, the pair bought their marriage license and have been married the identical day.
“I really feel like there’s a singers’ curse round assembly an sincere companion who has no pores and skin within the recreation, no canine within the race,” Del Rey continued. “It’s tremendous nerve-wracking to carry on to an harmless notion of how issues may go if you’re in an business the place perhaps your values and your morals don’t fairly match up with what’s happening. Particularly when individuals assume you in all probability don’t have any morals or values.”
Dufrene serves as captain for an alligator boat tour boat firm simply exterior of New Orleans. Based on Dufrene’s bio on the firm’s web site, “Jeremy determined life at a chemical plant working 7 days per week and shrimping on trip days was not his calling. After somewhat convincing by his household, he bought his captain’s license and began operating excursions. He rapidly realized that this was an ideal match and he has by no means considered going again to his earlier profession on the plant. Jeremy’s an ideal airboat captain and loves interacting with wildlife & prospects.”
