Robert Buckley is dead to me

^^Richard not Robert

Well he already looked dead, so this worked out well for him.

That's sad. He seemed like a nice guy.

Poor Tom. He seemed devoted to him.

Dang, OP, you scared me for a second there!

Sorry it was an old guy...

Me too, R5!

Cool, now Tom can hook up with a hot twink

Tom seems aspies

[quote] Cool, now Tom can hook up with a hot twink

Tom. Call me. Director to director. Pool party in your honor after an appropriate mourning period.

That's horrible. I feel for their son.

Does this mean that Tom's Faustian bargain is done?

[quote] I feel for their son.

Jeff?

He probably has dealt with a chronic illness privately for a while, which would explain the extreme weight loss and overall look of frailness in the last decade. I feel so sorry for Tom. You know he really loved him, because he could've had anyone he wanted. Also 35 is like 70 in gay years.

Yeah, Tom Ford one of the few who really stuck by his other half when hot guy literally throwing themselves at him for a chance to be one of his models.

I bet he was a cute kid.

Richard was diagnosed with cancer back in 1987, only a few months after he and Tom moved in together.

Tom was at the MET Gala last Monday???

I like Tom Fords stuff, I wish he designed more for men but it's sooooooo damn expensive really out of my budget.

Tom looks great for 60. Husband looked ancient

By the looks of Tom Ford's husband he probably had cancer.

Tom once took my hand at Bloomingdales. We walked around together for a while, then he realized his mistake and we both had a laugh.

He never looked healthy and looked way older than 72.

This is also another example of why having a kid in your 60’s is not a good idea. Now his son has already lost one parent.

Richard Buckley had a long terrible illness--I never found out exactly what it was, but it explains his wasted appearance for the last 20 years.

[quote] This is also another example of why having a kid in your 60’s is not a good idea. Now his son has already lost one parent.

But they're so chic!

Plus, you can hand them off to nannies--no muss, no fuss!

[quote] Now his son has already lost one parent.

Which one was the mother?

R16 Richard who?

Oh, I meant that as a slag on OP but forgot to sign.

He looked hot at r16. I always thought he looked like a leprechaun with glaucoma. Still sad, though, especially with the young son. Hope Tom doesn't get slimy and get some 20-something dumb twink step-dad for him.

[quote] when hot guy [bold]literally[/bold] throwing themselves at him for a chance to be one of his models.

That word... I do not think it means what you think it means...

long illness = AIDS

R30 thanks, cryptkeeper from the 90s.

Lol at Bar Bush @r2. An even bigger bitch in the hereafter.

Oh, my. He was handsome at r16.

No wonder Tom was disheveled and beside himself at his last fashion show. This is heartbreaking.

RiP

What is the basis for believing a December from the ice age, inured in the world of fashion, is somehow a particularly nice person?

Aww, I hadn't seen this news until just now. Poor Tom, he must be bereft losing him after being together that long.

One of the oddest gay pairings I've very seen.

Especially when you think how shallow Tom Ford seems to be. I wonder if the old man had lots of money before Tom had lots of his own?

[quote] We're sending our thoughts and condolences to Richard's loved ones during this difficult time.

“Thoughts and condolences”? Surely simply condolences should be enough.

R22 Christ, that’s such a cynical view, children lose parents of all ages, they just did a special on all the 9/11 kids 20 years later who had a parent die before they were even born.

The old man had influence. But then again if money could buy a 35-year loving relationship, I believe that it's really worth it.

R21 Thanks for the wonder laugh, it made my tummy hurt and feel like a little girl.

I take it back after viewing the image in R16. I'd never seen a photo of Buckley when he was young and well, only ones in which he looked old.

It speaks well of Tom for staying with him.

Apologies.

Buckley and Tom looked so fine in R16. Condolences to Tom.

If it wasn't for this Chinese plague pandemic, he would still be alive. So many people, dogs and cats with chronic diseases have died because their doctors can't be bothered to see their patients.

Sounds like some of you guys would ditch your partner immediately if he got sick and lost his looks. Kudos to Tom!

Richard Buckley = BYE FELECIA !!💀

Horrific, VILE, pretentious CUNT

Paris, Fall/Winter Men's Collections 2000 = was attending the shows & buying appointments with my bf at the time (& his business partner). I was only 21 at the time and new to that entire world of fashion.

I was standing in line for the restroom , bundled up freezing, after the JPG show and I'd noticed Skeletor standing in front of me and had seen her gaunt, scary face at all the shows we'd been to, & he seemed to speak english and so I attempted to make polite small talk, thinking he was american and we'd have that in common etc

I said "hello, I've noticed we've attended the same shows this week. What do you think of what we've seen?!l".

"Excuse me ?? Who are YOU, and why are you speaking to me?! I'm not going to talk to YOU!" said with a haughty, putrid scowl on his face.

Well, I was soon informed that he was Tom Fords lover & a fashion journalist. (As well as having a nasty reputation as a total prima donna cunt).

Tom I guarantee is already discreetly posted on Scruff

BUMP

35 is a long time for even straight relationships.

Bitch stole my act.

They were together for ages, which is admirable but it’s not like Tom kept it in his pants the whole time. I assume they had an open relationship. Tom hit on a gay coworker of mine in the 90s. I’d be surprised if he didn’t fuck the occasional male model over the years.

R47 7/10

[quote]“Thoughts and condolences”? Surely simply condolences should be enough.

Miss Susan Dey will only condolence (singular) and she does not send "thoughts". And she will do that only after the determination is made about whether the deceased is the hot actor or the skeletal old fashionista.

It's really hard to care about this. Tom Ford has all the warmth of Martha Stewart. If you locked a hundred of DLs muses/victims in a room with us, I think Ford would be second only to Andy Cohen in clawing at the door screaming to get out. The old man was known to most of us for what appeared to be against all odds longevity. So wrap him up in some nori and commit the remains to the Tom Ford suit bag or wherever he will spend eternity.

The way Tom talked about their first meeting on the elevator, it seemed he saw his way into the fashion world. It seemed more a business relationship than a marriage. If it worked for them, then more power to them. Everybody has different wants and needs.

And please STFU with the open relationship crap, I don't know a gay male couple who has been together even that long that doesn't have an open relationship. Or at least one thinks so.

WHET to the hot Robert Buckley, the actor?

Loved him on One Tree Hill

[quote] He probably has dealt with a chronic illness privately for a while

HIV?

Maybe Tom will return to his Texas roots and take up with another Buckley "of a certain age," Betty.

R47 memorably rude. But people who have higher profiles can have their guard up after being grifted all their lives.

The quote in R47 is from the Purple Prose handbook of the Sheboygan Conservatory of mid-20th C class-based narrative, categories: Broad Satire and Woman's Pictures.

R55) I’ve been with my husband for 37 years, and I can assure you, we do not have an open relationship.