Nancy Chemtob
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Nancy Chemtob speaks with Curbed on why some couples continue to live in the same home, even after they split up.

Curbed
July 12, 2023

Curbed: It’s the Summer of Postdivorce Cohabitation

Curbed reports on couples separating or getting divorced but deciding to continue living in the same home together. Nancy Chemtob was quoted in the article on the consequences of couples remaining in the same home when they separate on bad terms.

“I had a client, and she and her husband were living together in this beautiful house in the Hamptons. She just couldn’t stand him — he was cheating on her,” says Nancy Chemtob, a prominent divorce attorney who has represented celebrities like Mary-Kate Olsen and Tory Burch. “So she started putting Nair in his shampoo. His hair was getting thinner and thinner. He thought it was the stress of the divorce, so he finally moved out.”

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Curbed reports on couples separating or getting divorced but deciding to continue living in the same home together. Nancy Chemtob was quoted in the article on the consequences of couples remaining in the same home when they separate on bad terms.

“I had a client, and she and her husband were living together in this beautiful house in the Hamptons. She just couldn’t stand him — he was cheating on her,” says Nancy Chemtob, a prominent divorce attorney who has represented celebrities like Mary-Kate Olsen and Tory Burch. “So she started putting Nair in his shampoo. His hair was getting thinner and thinner. He thought it was the stress of the divorce, so he finally moved out.”

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