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Sorry, Gents, Elizabeth Wurtzel Is Off The Market

The high-profile lawyer and author, who rocketed to fame by writing about her struggles with mental illness, claims that she's tamed the crazy -- to the point where she can get married.

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Last year, we raised the possibility of Elizabeth Wurtzel, the prominent New York lawyer and writer, getting married. This was based on a Reddit appearance in which she stated, “I actually think I may yet get married — statistically 90% of people get married at some point. But I would say that love and craziness [have] overwhelmed my life, and I am trying to write about it….”

Well, it looks like Liz Wurtzel has tamed the craziness — to the point where yes, she’s able to tie the knot. How do we know this?

Because La Wurtzel just wrote about it, over the weekend in the New York Times:

I did not expect to fall in love at 46, and I did not expect to plan a wedding at 47. Except that I always expect to be surprised.

I would love to say that I don’t know why I never got around to this until now, but that would be a big fat lie. I never got married because who would want to? I was the worst girlfriend ever. And yes, I am the crazy ex-girlfriend you hear about. I had no regard for time of day or time of year or time at all. Perhaps I just had no regard. It’s not like I called boyfriends at 2 a.m. because something was wrong: I did it because I liked to talk in the dark when there was nothing good to watch on TV anymore.

Above the Law readers — who go crazy for stories about Wurtzel — have previously called her, well, crazy. And she wouldn’t contest that characterization, at least as to her past self. But she claims to have turned over a new leaf:

When I was ready to fall in love for real, I stopped behaving badly, and I met someone great, and great for me. I got better and my taste got better. My fiancé is smart and handsome and talented and decent. Everything about him is my favorite thing about him.

He proposed this past May, just seven months after we met. I knew I was going to marry Jim the night I encountered him, at a reading in Chelsea in autumn, so it did not seem too soon.

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I have had the pleasure of meeting Jim, who is a writer like Wurtzel and also a journalist, and I agree with her description of him as “smart and handsome and talented and decent.” He’s also a good bit younger than Wurtzel. She’s a cougar, hear her roar!

It can be hard for a woman over 40 to find love in New York City — see generally Sex and the City — but when you’ve got game like Liz Wurtzel, anything is possible. Early congratulations and best wishes to Elizabeth and Jim!

Getting Married Is Easy [New York Times]

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