Let’s take a nostalgic journey to March 1996.

During this time, “Fargo” debuted in cinemas, while “The Birdcage” dominated the box office. Meanwhile, the Hubble Space Telescope, after six years in orbit, sent back the first-ever images of Pluto.

On March 21, 1996, Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted for the murder of their parents. Just days later, on March 26, authorities arrested the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, at his remote cabin in Montana. The following day, actor Alec Baldwin and his then-wife, actress Kim Basinger, purchased a historic 10-acre estate in Amagansett, East Hampton, for $1.75 million. The couple, married since 1990, moved into their new residence with their one-year-old daughter, Ireland Baldwin.

While Alec and Kim settled into their Hamptons home, 12-year-old Hillary Hayward-Thomas was navigating her seventh-grade year in Boston, five hours away.

Fast forward to 2002, Alec and Kim finalized their divorce, with Alec retaining ownership of the Hamptons property.

By 2009, Hillary was working as a yoga instructor at Manhattan’s Yoga to the People. The following year, she founded her own studio, Yoga Vida. In 2011, Hillary met Alec Baldwin, and they began dating. The couple tied the knot in 2012.

At some point before Hillary met Alec, for reasons no one can quite understand, she began going by the name “Hilaria” and started speaking with a Spanish accent.

Oh, and some weird stuff happened with several other Yoga to the People characters. One of Hillary’s fellow teachers was a Swedish-born woman named Sofia Kristina. In 2015, Sofia married Prince Carl Philip, the only son of Swedish King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia. So today, Sofia is known formally as Princess Sofia, Duchess of Varmland. And, as it turned out, the owners of Yoga to the People were teaching the “Bikram” method without paying royalties. But that’s not the worst offense. Years later, the founders were convicted of failing to pay taxes on $20 million worth of revenue earned between 2012 and 2020.

But I digress. Let’s get back to Hilaria and Alec. They welcomed their first of what would become seven children in August 2013.

Both Hilaria and Alec are of Irish, English, and French descent. She also has some German heritage, apparently. As a reminder, she is from Boston. She is not from Spain. She is not ethnically Spanish. And yet, at some point before she met Alec, she decided to begin living life as a person from Spain. To the point where, in a 2015 appearance on the “Today” show, Hilaria forgot the English word for “cucumber” while making an authentic Spanish gazpacho. Alec is from Long Island. With all that in mind, here is what they have named their seven children:

• Carmen Gabriela
• Rafael Thomas
• Leonardo Ángel Charles
• Romeo Alejandro David
• Eduardo Pau Lucas
• María Lucía Victoria
• Ilaria Catalina Irena

A Dios mio.

Hilaria, Alec and their seven Spanish children live primarily in a six-unit penthouse apartment in Manhattan. They also still own that original Hamptons estate he bought with Kim Bassinger in 1996.

In September 2022, Alec and Hilaria listed their Hamptons estate for $29 million. They didn’t get any buyers. In January 2024, they lowered the price to $19 million. With the updated price, Alec also starred in a video tour of the home:

In July 2024, after nearly three years of legal purgatory following the ‘Rust’ shooting, a judge dismissed Baldwin’s remaining manslaughter charge with prejudice — ending the criminal case against him.”

In early 2025, TLC aired eight episodes of a reality show called “The Baldwins,” which followed the family in the aftermath of the fatal “Rust” shooting incident, and the general chaos of raising seven little Spaniards. The Hamptons home was shown frequently in the series.

And that brings us to the present. Alec and Hilaria have just changed the price again, but in an interesting twist, they actually INCREASED the asking price to $21 million.

Adios!