Tobey Maguire Officiated His Ex-Wife's Wedding in Hawaii. Divorce Has Never Been So Tidy
Jennifer Meyer married music executive Geoffrey Ogunlesi on Lanai on Saturday, with her ex-husband reading the vows and half of Hollywood's money in the chairs.
By the Heckle Desk · · 2 min read
On Saturday, at the Four Seasons on the island of Lanai, the jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer married Geoffrey Ogunlesi, a music executive whose father, Adebayo Ogunlesi, is a billionaire infrastructure investor. The ceremony was performed by Tobey Maguire. Tobey Maguire is her ex-husband. I'll give you a moment.
Meyer and Maguire married in Hawaii in 2007, announced their separation in 2016, and, according to reports, finished the divorce this year, only weeks before he stood up in front of everybody and read from a sheet of paper while she kissed another man. Their two children were part of the celebrations. Most divorced men can't attend their ex-wife's wedding without being asked to leave by a cousin. He ran it.
The guest list, as reported, included Leonardo DiCaprio, Courteney Cox, Kate Hudson, Rachel Zoe, and Jeff Bezos with Lauren Sánchez Bezos. That's a lot of money to put on one small island. If the ocean had risen two feet that afternoon, the Forbes list would have needed a lifeguard, and I'm not sure the rest of us would have thrown a rope.
What gets me is this. There's a whole industry built on divorce, with lawyers and forensic accountants and men who sit in parked cars taking photographs, and these two seem to have skipped all of it and gone straight to the part where everyone has a nice time in Hawaii. It's either the most evolved thing in the history of marriage or the most Los Angeles thing that's ever happened, and I suspect those are the same.
My own experience of divorce was that you split the furniture and never speak of the lamp again. Nobody asked me to officiate anything. I wasn't even invited to the lamp's next place.
Still, there's a lesson for the rest of us in the Maguire method. You can't always stay married, but you can stay useful. And a man who can stand up and marry off his own ex-wife, with a straight face, in front of DiCaprio, has done something harder than anything he ever did in a red suit.