The international media are already talking about “surprise couple of the year”, and it is no less: Monica Bellucci and Tim Burton They were discovered by the paparazzi on the streets of Paris, holding hands and kissing.
She is 58 and he is 64. As gossip programs reconstructed, they met briefly in 2006 on the steps of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. But the crush happened in October last year, at the 14th Lumière Film Festival, held every year in the French city of Lyon. There, the person in charge of awarding Burton was Bellucci himself. That kiss photo that has currently gone viral.
Today’s scoop was given by Paris Match magazine, which surprised them walking arm in arm through the streets of Paris.
Bellucci, celibate
The Italian actress had been single since her relationship with French gallery owner Nicolas Lefebvre ended in 2019after two years together. “We get along very well and this man has taught me a lot, he is a person who has a real artistic sensibility, but our flight together now continues on another track, which is that of a lifelong friendship”, he declared at the time Bellucci. actress for the Italian magazine F.
Lefebvre was Bellucci’s first known partner after her marriage to French actor Vincent Cassel, with whom she was married for 14 years, from 1999 to 2013, forming one of the most emblematic couples in European cinema. They had two daughters, Deva and Léonie Cassel.
When she separated from Cassel, the Italian diva told Vanity Fair that she had always had a partner by her side and that the breakup was useful for her to focus on herself: “I would like to convey this same message to my daughters so that they are aware that it is not mandatory to have a husband or a partner. Loneliness should not scare us”.
Burton, divorced
For his part, the American director split from actress Helena Bonham Carter in 2014, after 13 years together. Burton and Carter have two sons: Bill and Nell.
Both met while filming the acclaimed director’s adaptation of the film Planet of the Apes in 2001. Since then, they have worked together on several movies like Sweeney Todd AND Alice in Wonderland. Prior to that long relationship with Bonham Carter (whom he never married), Burton was married for four years, from 1987 to 1991, to German special effects technician, painter and academic Lena Gieseke.
Source: Clarin
