John Mellencamp and Christie Brinkley split after a year of dating

John Mellencamp and Christie Brinkley made it for almost a year as a couple, but now they’re done.

“Both the mileage between their homes and their heavy career demands interfered with their ability to maintain the relationship,” a spokesperson for the two told People on Tuesday.

A Page Six source backed up about the distance thing, saying, “He really didn’t like coming to New York, and she was always on a plane going to his homes.”

Mellencamp, 64, has places in his beloved home base, Indiana, and on an island in South Carolina. Meanwhile, Brinkley, 62, is, of course, an Uptown Girl. The two reportedly met in her part of the country, at a party in the Hamptons last summer.

Mellencamp and his third wife, model Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, announced in December 2010 that they were splitting after 18 years and two sons together. They finalized their divorce in August 2011, by which time he was already dating actress Meg Ryan, whom he met in a grocery store in New York and started dating while the Mellencamps were separated.

Including a distance-induced breakup for a couple of months in fall 2014, John Mellencamp and Ryan dated until summer 2015.

Brinkley was famously married to singer-songwriter Billy Joel, who in September 2015 joked about his ex’s new relationship with the “Little Pink Houses” performer after singing “The Longest Time” — like “Uptown Girl,” it was about her — to an audience in New York City.

Joel was the third of her four husbands and is the father of Alexa Ray Joel, the eldest of her three children. Mellencamp, who recently guest-starred as himself on Showtime’s “Roadies,” has five children from his three marriages.

Follow Christie D’Zurilla on Twitter @theCDZ.

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