Saturday 13 August 2022 04:43 AM Salman Rushdie's fourth wife Padma Lakshmi is pictured out in NYC after former ... trends now
Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, the fourth wife of novelist Salman Rushdie, was spotted out in NYC on Friday afternoon hours after her former spouse was stabbed at a literary event by an alleged Iranian government sympathizer.
Just a few hours after the stabbing, his fourth wife Padma Lakshmi was pictured out in New York City wearing a denim jumper, face mask and glasses as she stepped out in Manhattan. The two were married in 2004, but their union only lasted three years.
Rushdie, 75, is on a ventilator, unable to speak and will likely lose an eye, his agent said following the attack.
Rushdie was about give a talk on artistic freedom at New York's Chautauqua Institution when a man rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist, who has lived with a bounty on his head since the late 1980s.
Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi was spotted out in NYC after her ex-husband novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed at an event
Lakshmi attempts to shield herself as she's seen out in New York City after her ex-husband was attacked earlier in the day
The Top Chef host was spotted just a couple of hours after Rushdie was stabbed by a suspect identified by police as Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old man from Fairview, New Jersey, who bought a pass to the event.
After hours of surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday evening after an attack condemned by writers and politicians around the world as an assault on the freedom of expression.
'The news is not good,' Andrew Wylie, his book agent, wrote in an email. 'Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.'
Rushdie has long faced death threats for his fourth novel, 'The Satanic Verses' that
