Padma Lakshmihas enjoyed a hugely successful and wide-ranging career thus far.
Asthe New York Timesnotes, they originally met a party in 1999 and subsequently married in 2004.
Rushdie believed she was using her ailment as an excuse not to have sex.

Looking back on their eight-year relationship, Rushdie dismisses it as living “a sort of life together.”
They split after six months due to Gere being on the rebound after his own divorce.

