A Hollywood star who was dumped by the Earl of Drogheda’s son has claimed his new engagement to a 25-year-old US heiress is an ‘arrangement’ designed to please his parents.
Garrett Moore, whose father is the 12th Earl of Drogheda Derry Moore, had previously been engaged to 72-year-old Colleen Camp – a woman older than his mother.
But earlier this week it was announced that Moore, 39, is now betrothed to Hope Chilton – the daughter of US investment CEO Richard Lockwood Chilton Jr. – whose $1.3billion fortune makes him one of the richest men in the world.
Now, Camp – who left a generation of teenage boys spellbound thanks to roles in two of the Hollywood blockbuster Police Academy movies and a Smokey And The Bandit film – has hit back claiming Moore’s new romance is an ‘arrangement’.
Camp told the Daily Mail: ‘He said the reason he proposed is no one made him laugh harder in his life.’
She added: ‘I’m sure his family will be much happier with this arrangement than [with] a grandmother.’
Moore, who is known for staging fantastical revels at London’s top venues for the likes of Kate Moss, Sienna Miller and Harry Styles, proposed after a transatlantic romance that has become the talk of London and New York society.
While the pair have not yet announced a wedding date, society watchers expect lavish celebrations on both sides of the Atlantic, likely including London, New York and possibly the Chiltons’ grand English estate, Crichel House, a Palladian mansion set in 5,000 acres of Dorset parkland. It was where George IV stayed while Prince Regent.
Colleen Camp was engaged to Garrett Moore, whose father is the 12th Earl of Drogheda Derry Moore, in 2020. This was despite their 33 year age gap and her being older than his mother
Moore, 39, is now betrothed to Hope Chilton – the daughter of US investment CEO Richard Lockwood Chilton Jr
Camp left a generation of teenage boys spellbound thanks to roles in two of the Hollywood blockbuster Police Academy movies and a Smokey And The Bandit film
The couple’s families, including Hope’s father Richard, 67, and the Earl of Drogheda – also known as Derry Moore, the celebrated photographer, 88 – are said to be thrilled.
A friend of the couple told the Daily Mail: ‘Garrett and Hope are a perfect match. She is warm, smart and unpretentious and they are incredibly happy together. Both families are delighted.’
Camp and Moore’s previous relationship made headlines not only for the 33-year age gap but for Moore’s own gleeful comparisons to The Graduate, the 1967 film about a young man – played by Dustin Hoffman – seduced by an older woman.
Despite their 33-year age gap, the pair were said to have much in common through their love of hosting parties, but the wedding never materialised, and they’re believed to have split that December.
At the time, Camp described their bond as ‘magical’, while he joked it might look like ‘Harold And Maude’ from the outside.
‘We have had a magical and wonderful relationship over the last few years,’ Colleen told the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden in November 2020.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter last December, Camp insisted the pairing was ‘a joke that went too far’, adding: ‘We never even kissed.’
Prior to her relationship with Moore, Camp married John Goldwyn in 1986, who held a senior role at Paramount at the time. He would later become the vice chairman.
The marriage ended in divorce in 2001, with Goldwyn coming out as gay when the papers were filed. He is now married to hotel owner Jeff Klein, and the pair remain close to Camp, with whom Goldwyn shares a daughter, Emily.