Welcome to The Group Chat with Lucy Manly, where Australia's most-trusted society insider shares the hottest gossip BEFORE it makes the news The billion-dollar question Will they or won't they? It's the question on the lips of Sydney's society set regarding the nuptials of our favourite May-December lovebirds, 81-year-old billionaire Robert Whyte and his 38-year-old fashion marketer fiancée Alessandra Eddy. According to several sources, their plans to walk down the aisle have not moved forward since news broke of their surprise engagement earlier this year. 'It's now a case of will they actually get married, not when,' one acquaintance of the age-gap couple tells me.
Will they or won't they? It's the question on the lips of Sydney's society set regarding the nuptials of our favourite May-December lovebirds, 81-year-old billionaire Robert Whyte and his 38-year-old fashion marketer fiancée Alessandra Eddy (pictured together) Whyte proposed to Eddy, who is 43 years his junior, in May - just days before one of the ritziest days on the society calendar, the Gold Dinner fundraiser 'All bets are off, if you ask me.' Whyte, a Rich Lister and former Kerry Packer confidant, proposed to Eddy, who is 43 years his junior, in May - just days before one of the ritziest days on the society calendar, the Gold Dinner, a fundraiser for the Sydney Children's Hospitals Foundation. Mr Whyte's estimated $898million fortune earned him a decent spot in the Australian Financial Review's 2024 Rich .
