If it’s true that Brad Pitt is dating this beautiful Academy Award-winning A-lister, the world could look forward to the next Hollywood super couple.
The Daily Mail, picking up on a story from another British tabloid The Sun, reports that 55-year-old Pitt started seeing Charlize Theron, 43, over the Christmas holidays — a few weeks after he and estranged wife Angelina Jolie reached an agreement in their bitter, high-profile custody battle.
People reported Monday that Pitt and Theron met last year on a commercial shoot for watch brand Breitling — not through her ex-fiance Sean Penn, as The Sun reported.
“About six months ago, they did a shoot together. So they have spent time together,” the source told People. “But anything that may have happened beyond that remains to be seen.”
However, People later updated its story, with a source saying, “They have not been out together recently, and were never dating. Reports of them being involved romantically are false.”
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The Sun claims that Pitt and Theron were seen getting cozy on Jan. 12 at an insider event at Chateau Marmont, the famous Hollywood gathering spot. “The new lovebirds were all over each over” at the event, a source told The Sun.
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The event was a screening and party for the acclaimed film “Roma.” Pitt had been at another screening earlier that evening at a private home in the Hollywood hills for “If Beale Street Could Talk” — a film for which he is an executive producer.
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When the “Beale Street” party wrapped, Pitt headed to Chateau Marmont, where he changed his outfit and joined Theron in a corner at the bar, The Sun said.
“She was on a vodka cocktail while he stuck to mineral water,” a source told The Sun. “They were ridiculously touchy-feely, and his arm was around her back. At one point he winked at her.”
“Brad seemed in a really good place,” the source added. “They both looked really happy.”
Pitt has enjoyed high-profile relationships with other famous, A-list blondes: ex-wife Jennifer Aniston and ex-fiancee Gwyneth Paltrow.
With regard to Pitt reportedly sticking to mineral water at Chateau Marmont, the “Fight Club” actor said in a 2017 interview that he stopped drinking alcohol after Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. Pitt and Jolie had been married for two years, but they had been together more than a decade, leading a high-profile life of making movies, raising six children and presenting themselves as globe-trotting humanitarians.
Amid their nasty breakup, reports surfaced that Jolie left Pitt because he was drinking too much, and he had trouble controlling his anger, including when he got involved in some kind of altercation with oldest son Maddox, then 15, on a private plane returning from Europe.
If it’s true that Pitt and Theron are seeing each other, their romance could mark Pitt’s first serious relationship since he split from Jolie. It could also mean that Pitt has chosen to date another highly talented female star who also has happens to be his ex-wife’s “enemy,” the Daily Mail reported.
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Citing Radar Online, the Daily Mail said Theron and Jolie can’t stand each other and have been “feuding for years” over film roles, including a proposed remake of the horror classic “Bride of Frankenstein.”
Jolie was “courted” to play the lead role, and Theron was the “runner-up,” the Daily Mail said. But Radar Online claimed Jolie was “stringing Theron along, refusing to commit to the project, and denying the star the opportunity to accept other roles, as she awaits a decision.”
Although disputed by People, The Sun claimed that Pitt and Theron were first introduced when Theron was engaged to Sean Penn. Theron called off the engagement in 2015.
Interestingly, the Washington Post, citing OK magazine, reported in 2015 that Theron and Jolie had become good friends when they were still with Penn and Pitt, who were good friends.
“The guys have been tight for years and ever since Sean and Charlize became serious they’ve been spending a lot of time together as a foursome,” the Washington Post said at the time.
The Sun said Theron has recently been seeing Pitt at his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz, but has yet to meet his six children: Maddox, 17; Pax, 14; Zahara, 13; Shiloh, 12; and twins Vivienne and Knox, 10.
Theron has two adopted children: Jackson, 7, and August, 3.
“They have been casually seeing each other for nearly a month now,” a source told the Sun. “They’ve been friends for some time — ironically, through Sean — but things have developed.”
The Daily Mail contacted representatives for Pitt and Theron, but had not received a comment about their possible relationship.
Though Theron and Pitt have never worked together on a film, she co-starred with his friend Matt Damon in the 2000 film “The Legend of Bagger Vance.” Theron previously was linked to “Big Little Lies” star Alexander Skarsgard.
This story has been updated to include comments to People magazine, and the report from the Washington Post.
