Carly Simon Reveals Inspiration Behind Famous Song

After decades  of speculation  partially famous folk-pop diva Carly Simon has finally revealed the, until now, secret identity of the man that served as the inspiration for her 1972 hit song You’re So Vain. As it turns out the subject of her ire and (pop music’s longest held collective breath) is a little known fork lift operator, and part time origami-ist, named Lord Rederick G. Wiggenham III.

The announcement, made late last night right after the artist performed her signature tune as a final encore and just before Kevin Federline took to the stage, ends many thirty year old rumors that Simon’s famously vindictive ode to a colossal jerkwad was about either Mark Felt, Idi Amin or Dr. Erich von Freemason.

In an exclusive interview with The Vitamin Press Carly confided that as a young woman she had been extremely taken with Wiggenham and to this day has never “met a better looking man or a more skilled lover.”. Things flourished for a while between the couple but it all came to an end in the summer of 1971 when, as Simon puts it, “It became painfully clear that our goals were just very incompatible.  I wanted to move to California to pursue a career in pole dancing while he harbored dreams of going off to Harvard and becoming proficient in the art of heavy machinery operation and fashioning elegant mythical creature out of delicate snips of paper.  We argued about it for weeks, then late one night I heard my screen door slam . . . and a big yellow taxi took my heart away.”

For his part Wiggenham -who also spoke with The Vitamin Press- also held bitter-sweet memories of that time in his life.  “She was a special lady.  A real hum dinger.  Folk singer.  I wanted to stay with her, I really really did.  I wanted to be her muse.  But it just could never have worked out.  You see I’m descended from a great nobleman.  I’m the grandson of King Louis XIV and in the state I live, Louisiana, it is illegal for a member of royalty to marry a commoner unless they are related by blood.  So I had to leave her.  And it broke my heart.  I think about her every time I watch Soul Train.”

Simon has also remembered Wiggenham over the years and in addition to having written You’re So Vain about the man also penned her hit songs Anticipation,  Nobody Does it Better and Too Legit to Quit about their brief – but powerful-relationship.