Could he be putting the pinch on his estranged wife in their divorce?
Former New York Times publisher Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger Jr. is apparently living up to his nickname in his divorce battle with his wife of less than six years, Gabrielle Greene.
According to a source, things have become so bitter, they are warring in court over the terms of the prenup they signed before they married in 2014.
One source sniped, “Arthur gave Gabrielle a prenup before they married, and now he doesn’t want to stick to it.”
But a rep for Sulzberger Jr. insisted, “Mr. Sulzberger is fully complying with his prenup, including the provisions regarding confidentiality, and only wants this marriage to come to a peaceful end. Ms. Greene is misinterpreting the prenup to meet her demands.”
The terms of the prenup are not known, but the source speculated it could cover marital property and New York Times stock.
Sulzberger Jr. bought an Upper West Side penthouse for $4 million in 2011. He also owns a Hudson Valley mansion in New Paltz.
The NYT scion, 69, reportedly worth around $16 million, filed for divorce from Greene, a 60-year-old financier who did a brief stint as chair of Whole Foods, on Feb. 4, The Post first revealed.
The divorce records are sealed, but docket information shows it’s a “contested matrimonial” suit filed in New York State Supreme Court. The former couple is said to be back in court today — and both have hired powerful legal guns.
When asked about the prenup battle, Greene’s attorney Sheila Riesel, a partner at top divorce firm Blank Rome, who has represented Al Pacino and Woody Allen, said, “I can’t comment. This is a private matter.”
Sulzberger Jr.’s attorney Adria Hillman — who famously represented Ron Perelman in his scorched-earth divorce from socialite Patricia Duff — also declined to comment when reached by Page Six by phone.
Sulzberger Jr. is often referred to as “Pinch,” a variation of his father’s nickname, “Punch.” He retired as chairman of the New York Times Company in December 2020, passing the torch to his son A.G. Sulzberger, the fifth generation of the Ochs-Sulzbergers to take the reins as publisher in more than 120 years of family ownership.
Greene is Sulzberger Jr.’s second wife. The two wed at the Outermost Inn on Martha’s Vineyard on Aug. 30, 2014, according to their wedding announcement in the Times, which said the bride planned to take her husband’s name, although the divorce papers filed by Pinch identify his soon-to-be ex only as Gabrielle Greene.