This is the most bizarre story. This is a photo of singer Edie Brickell leaving court yesterday after she and husband Paul Simon were both arrested for an alleged domestic dispute. I should have mentioned Paul first. People know who he is, but Edie only had that one hit song … “What I Am.” They’ve been married since 1992 and seemed like an odd couple when they hooked up. There’s their 24 year age difference and she’s super tall while he’s tiny, but they made it work. Until now, that is.

The details are sparse surrounding the fight that led to Paul and Edie’s arrests. The NYDN says it was a shoving match. The altercation must have been pretty bad if the police were called to their suburban Connecticut home. The strange thing is that when Paul and Edie went to court, they both acted like nothing happened. Edie admitted she started an argument, and somehow they got arrested for “disorderly conduct.” They both sound sort of surprised to have ended up in court. You decide:

Guess the marriage is still crazy after all these years.

The songbird spouse of singer Paul Simon said Monday that she started a spat at their Connecticut house that got them both arrested for disorderly conduct.

“I got my feelings hurt and I picked a fight with my husband,” Edie Brickell said in a statement. “The police called it disorderly. Thank God it’s orderly now.”

Paul Simon leaves Norwalk Superior Court after being arraigned for disorderly conduct Monday morning.

Paul Simon and Edie Brickell leave court separately after being arraigned on Monday.

Dressed in a navy blue suit and a green fedora that he took off before taking the stand, Simon admitted he and Brickell hit some troubled marital waters, but insisted “both of us are fine together.”

“We’re going to go home and watch our son play baseball,” Simon said in the Norwalk, Conn., courtroom. “We had an argument, which is atypical of us. Neither of us has any fear, or any reason to be threatened.”

Brickell, dressed in ankle boots, skinny brown jeans and towering over her diminutive husband, chimed in, “He’s no threat to me at all.”

Judge William Wenzel cut the couple a break and declined to issue a protective order on the condition that they behave themselves.

Then Simon, 72, and Brickell, 47, left the courtroom hand-in-hand. They are due back in court on May 16.

“Edie and I are fine,” Simon told reporters. “We love each other. We had an argument, that’s all.”

[From New York Daily News]

No one knows what happened except Paul and Edie, but this seems strange. These two laughed off the fight, and Paul called it “atypical.” I don’t want to sound judgy, but I once had neighbors who fought like crazy. They’d always swear it rarely happened, but that was a lie. I hope Paul and Edie were telling the truth and that they simply lost their minds for a moment in time. The judge in this case believed that they were okay to go without a restraining order. That must mean something, right?

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