This week, Kim Gordon opened up for the first time about the breakup of her marriage to Thurston Moore, confirming to Elle that, after 30 years together as punk rock royalty, “it ended in a kind of normal way—midlife crisis, starstruck woman,” referring to a mysterious other woman who had allegedly wormed her way into the couple’s inner circle. Naturally, music geeks took to the Internet to opine about her identity, and, through a source, we’ve confirmed who it is.
From Gordon’s interview in Elle:
Some years ago, a woman Gordon declines to name became a part of the Sonic Youth world, first as the girlfriend of an erstwhile band member and later as a partner on a literary project with Moore. Eventually, Gordon discovered a text message and confronted him about having an affair. They went to counseling, but he kept seeing the other woman. “We never got to the point where we could just get rid of her so I could decide what I wanted to do,” Gordon says. “Thurston was carrying on this whole double life with her. He was really like a lost soul.” Moore moved out.
With some decent clues to go on, the gossip started almost immediately among Sonic Youth fans, with names like Abby Banks (photographer), Elaine Kahn (poet), and Jemina Pearl (from Be Your Own Pet) being bandied about on message boards, but the woman in question is actually 34-year-old art book editor Eva Prinz, 20 years Moore’s junior.
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