Monica Bellucci and Tim Burton are reported to be dating, and have been for months under the radar, it has been claimed.
The Italian actor, 58, and the 64-year-old film mogul first met 16 years ago, but reportedly started secretly dating four months ago.
It has been said that the pair decided to make their relationship official around the time of the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon this October, when Monica presented Tim with the Lumiere lifetime achievement award on stage.
After Monica handed over the prize to her reported beau, Tim said during his speech: “All my life put together, I have never felt so much love as tonight. Welcome to the best funeral I ever had!”
The couple were also reportedly spotted together watching the re-production of Silent Documentary Film, which was directed in 1895 by the late French filmmaker Louis Lumiere.
Paris Match reported that the pair “briefly met on the steps of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes in 2006, but it was only sixteen years later, behind the scenes of another festival, that they got closer.”
The Mirror has contacted a representative of Tim Burton and Monica Bellucci for a comment on the matter.
Prior to her alleged relationship with Tim, Monica has not been on the dating since since 2019, when she split from artist Nicolas Lefebvre.
She was previously wed to Vincent Cassel between 1997 and 2013.
The infamous model met Vincent in 1996, whilst they were both on set for Gilles Mimouni’s film l’Appartement. They share two teenage daughters, Deva, 19, and Leonie, 13.
The pair shared a three-year-long relationship before tying the knot in an intimate wedding in Monaco, France.
Meanwhile, Tim was previously in a long-term relationship with Helena Bonham Carter for 13 years, and split back in 2014.
