23 year old daughter of Billy Joel and , Alexa Ray Joel, was rushed to a hospital in Manhattan after she presumably downed a "handful" of sleeping pills in a failed suicide bid. After paramedics responded to a 911 call which came in around 12:30 pm, she was rushed to the St. Vincent's Medical Center. The call had been made form Alexa's apartment in West Village.

Medical officials were informed by the Fire Department officers that she had taken as many as 8 pills and was having trouble inhaling.

Washington, Oct 2 : Singer Billy Joel is all set to disclose the good, bad and ugly of his life as he plans to pen his autobiography.

The 60-year-old hitmaker has made a 2.25-million-dollar deal with HarperCollins publishers for the memoir.

Contactmusic quoted a source as telling the Daily Express: "Billy''s life could be a movie. His early days in the Bronx where he was teased because he played piano led him to take up boxing.

Washington, September 23 : Billy Joel appeared to have moved on from his failed marriage after being spotted with a new girlfriend in New York.

The couple was photographed at the opening night of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera.

The singer, who parted ways with third wife Katie Lee in June this year, was said to be least bothered about the upcoming divorce proceedings while being with love interest Deborah Dampiere.

"How are the divorce proceedings going? I don''t know,” Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

New York, Aug 3 : American rocker Billy Joel is reportedly keen to win his ex-wife Katie Lee back.

Sources have revealed that Joel is completely distraught over the June break-up, and he''s doing everything he can to win her back.

"Billy is obsessed with her" the New York Post quoted a friend as saying.

The couple split because Katie Lee -- a TV food critic and chef -- wanted to have kids and a family, but Joel did not.

Lee''s many nights out with designer Yigal Azrouel also irked Joel.

New York, July 23 : Billy Joel, who ended his four-year marriage to wife Katie Lee last month, is said to be dating former "The Young and the Restless" star Alex Donnelley.

The NYPost. com has reported that Joel met Donnelly through friends backstage at a recent Washington D. C. concert.

"The two hit it off immediately," an insider said of the couple.

The pair has been spending time boating and riding motorcycles at Joel''s Sag Harbor home, reports The New York Daily News. (ANI)

New York, June 24 : Singer Billy Joel missed his daughter Alexa Ray Joel’s Father’s Day performance in hometown Hamptons.

However, mother Christie Brinkley and half-brother, Jack, 11, were by her side, singing and dancing along at the concert.

According to Plum TV''s Jacquelynn Powers, Alexa called it her "hometown gig" as she grew up in the Hamptons.

"Growing up, I didn''t know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody,” the New York Post quoted her as telling the crowd.

New York, June 22 : If sources are to be believed, singer Billy Joel and his third wife Katie Lee parted ways after they couldn't agree on when to start a family.

"Billy wanted to get going now. Katie, who's 27, wanted to focus on her career," the New York Daily News quoted a friend of Joel as saying.

However, a friend of Lee said: "That's not true. If anything, it was the other way around."

Recently, it was being suggested that the major reason behind the couple's separation was their age difference.

New York, June 19 : It looks like the major reason behind singer Billy Joel's separation with his third wife Katie Lee was their age difference.

Sources say that Joel, 60, was just too much of a codger for his 27-year-old wife.

"It really was just an age thing," the New York Post quoted a source as saying.

"She loves the city, she loves to go out and have fun and he prefers to stay at home," the source added.

Washington, June 19 : Billy Joel's ex-wife Christie Brinkley has broken her silence on the rocker's recent split with wife Katie Lee.

Joel's break-up followed after pictures of the 27-year-old's dirty dancing pictures with Yigal Azrouel got published on U. S tabloids to the dismay of the singer.

However representative of the Uptown Girl singer denied saying the "decision to separate was absolutely unrelated to Yigal."

London, Apr 16 : Rocker Billy Joel''s wife has rubbished reports that she is romantically involved with Israeli designer Yigal Azrouel.

Katie Lee, 27, who wed the rocker in 2004, is baffled by the reports and branded the rumours "mean-spirited and untrue" on her Twitter page.

Her representative also denied the claims.

"They''ve just been friends - purely platonic," the Daily Express quoted the rep as telling Usmagazine.

Washington, Mar. 18 : A New York University professor, Robert Wright, has suggested that a good theme song on Obama's message for the economy is an old Billy Joel tune: "We Didn''t Start the Fire."

"We didn''t start the fire / It was always burning since the world''s been turning / We didn''t start the fire / No we didn''t light it but we tried to fight it," goes the chorus.

According to the Washington Times, the 1989 hit has spawned fan love and fan hate since it hit number one on the charts.