published by the Times of London<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m trying to reach Belle. I\u2019m sorry to tell you this, but your husband is having an affair with my wife,\u201d the shocking voicemail said.<\/p>\n
At the time, in March 2020, the couple and their two youngest children had gone to quarantine at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic at their $7.5 million second home in Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Massachusetts, when her husband Henry Davis\u2019s hedge fund and Burden\u2019s legal job had gone remote.<\/p>\n
Henry Davis (l) reportedly cheated on his wife of 21 years, heiress Flobelle \u201cBelle\u201d Fairbanks Burden (r). Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Burden, 56, confronted Davis, 60, about the reported infidelity, at which point, he allegedly admitted to the relationship with a far younger woman he met through work.<\/p>\n
Davis allegedly insisted he was \u201cembarrassed\u201d about the affair and said it had only been going on for \u201ca few weeks,\u201d adding that it was \u201cover\u201d now, Burden wrote.<\/p>\n
The mistress reportedly tried to take her own life when the relationship was exposed, Burden said, quoting a message apparently sent by the jilted husband.<\/p>\n
The family were quarantining at their Martha\u2019s Vineyard home when she learned of the affair. Belle Burden\/Instagram<\/p>\n
Davis reportedly said he didn\u2019t want the family\u2019s Martha\u2019s Vineyard home or their New York apartment. Google Maps<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a month,\u201d the mistress\u2019s husband wrote, in response to a text Burden sent asking about the duration of the affair. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I can\u2019t text because my wife has tried to kill herself. She\u2019s in an ambulance,\u201d the text continued.<\/p>\n
The next day, Davis told Burden that he wanted a divorce, reportedly leaving without saying goodbye to his children, later calling to give a chillingly cold end to the marriage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I was happy but I\u2019m not. I thought I wanted our life but I don\u2019t,\u201d Davis reportedly told Burden. \u201cI feel like a switch has flipped. I\u2019m done.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can have the [Martha\u2019s Vineyard] house and the [New York] apartment. You can have custody of the kids. I don\u2019t want it. I don\u2019t want any of it,\u201d he reportedly added.<\/p>\n
Burden said she never got an adequate explanation from Davis as to why their marriage of 21 years had come to such an abrupt end, and then reportedly stopped taking her calls.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll answer what I want, when I want. I\u2019ll speak when I want. I\u2019ll decide when I want,\u201d Davis reportedly texted Burden.<\/p>\n
Burden is the granddaughter of New York socialite, Babe Paley. Bettmann Archive<\/p>\n
Davis\u2019s family, after initially speaking with Burden, also suddenly cut her off, saying that they needed to support him, according to the memoir.<\/p>\n
Today, almost five years later, Burden claims that Davis sees the couple\u2019s three children only occasionally for dinners and tennis matches, but has not been involved in coparenting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been no handovers or holidays since the day he left,\u201d Burden wrote, adding that she doesn\u2019t know whether Davis is still with his mistress or whether he had any other affairs over the course of their marriage.<\/p>\n
Davis did not respond immediately to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heiress from the Big Apple revealed in her new book how her nearly two-decade-long marriage with her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45272,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-98090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-divorces","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-ny","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nyc-headlines","13":"tag-nyc-news","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}