While presenting producer and long-time collaborator Jack Antonoff with the Producer of the Decade award at Variety’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 motive” why she married the 49-year-old Louisiana boat captain.
“I’m grateful for [Antonoff] for the instance he gave me in his marriage to [Margaret Qualley],” Del Rey mentioned. “I noticed the way in which he checked out her when he met her, and he’s a giant motive 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 wedding ceremony between mannequin Karen Elson and Lee Foster. Only a couple of weeks in a while Sept. 26, the pair acquired their marriage license and have been married the identical day.
“I really feel like there’s a singers’ curse round assembly an trustworthy accomplice 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 trade the place perhaps your values and your morals don’t fairly match up with what’s occurring. Especially when individuals assume you most likely don’t have any morals or values.”
Dufrene serves as captain for an alligator boat tour boat firm simply exterior of New Orleans. According to Dufrene’s bio on the corporate’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 a little bit convincing by his household, he acquired his captain’s license and began working excursions. He shortly realized that this was an awesome match and he has by no means considered going again to his earlier profession on the plant. Jeremy’s an awesome airboat captain and loves interacting with wildlife & clients.”
