I was dating Elle Macpherson at the time. This was just before I started dating Christie Brinkley. In a 1999 Vanity Fair article about the woman on which this drama is based, Joel told the magazine, 'I knew her as Whitney Walton,' adding that she 'seemed to know a lot of people in my business. In addition to Groban, the cast includes Rachel Brosnahan as Walton, John Benjamin Hickey as writer-comedian Buck Henry, Harry Lloyd as New York restaurateur-hotelier Brian McNally, Morgan Spector as filmmaker Paul Schrader and Milo Ventimiglia as music producer Richard Perry. 'The Miranda Obsession,' a drama inspired by the story of Whitney Walton, aka Miranda Grosvenor, and the men she enticed without ever meeting them, is in production and scheduled to premiere on Audible on April 28. Singer-actor Josh Groban will portray Billy Joel in an Audible Original audio series about Miranda Grosvenor, the alter ego of a woman in the 1980s whose enchanting phone calls made celebrities fall for her.
