Where Ronald Galotti Is Now

Suddenly there he is, not necessarily wearing Armani on Sunday, but nevertheless the real Mr. Big. 

Ronald Galotti, long known as the inspiration for the suave businessman in Candace Bushnell’s Sex and The City book that later become the hit Sarah Jessica Parker series, did not meet his untimely end on the seat of a Peloton like his TV counterpart.  

In fact, the former Condé Nast executive—who dated Bushnell in the mid-90s—is more of an Aidan (John Corbett) these days. After all, the 75-year-old—portrayed by Chris Noth in Sex and the City as well as And Just Like That—has lived in a farmhouse in North Pomfret, Vermont, with his wife Lisa Galotti for the last 20 years, and has no plans of returning to his dapper Manhattan lifestyle anytime soon. 

As he told the New York Times in a July 3 profile, “I’m not sitting in the chair anymore.”

But as for his relationship with Bushnell, the inspiration for the iconic Carrie Bradshaw, and how it played out on the screen for Big and Carrie? It was never more, for him, than a casual relationship.