Brad Pitt (L); Lykke Li.Photo: Matt Petit/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images; Marc Piasecki/WireImage
Brad Pitthas struck up a friendship withLykke Li.
Despite a report that the actor, 58, is dating the 35-year-old Swedish singer and model, a source close to Pitt says Li is just part of “a large group of artsy friends that he enjoys hanging out with.”
“Lykke Li andAlia Shawkatare part of this group,” the insider says. “He likes having female friends too.”
According to the source, Pitt “is dating, but not seriously.”
“He still keeps in touch withNicole [Poturalski],” the insider adds of the German model Pitt was last linked to in 2020.
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Pitt, who is generally private regarding his love life, was seenarriving at Le Castellet Airport in Francewith Poturalski, 29, in August 2020. But a source told PEOPLE that October that any connection between the two had cooled.
“It was a casual fling and that’s it,” the source said.
Shawkat was also spotted with Pitt in 2019, although a source told PEOPLE their relationship was purely platonic. In a recent interview withThe New Yorker, Shawkat, 32, said Pitt “had noawareness” of romance rumors surrounding them. “He doesn’t read that s—,” she said.
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Pitt — whohas been in an ongoing custody battlewith ex-wifeAngelina Joliesince theirsplit in 2016— toldThe New York Times Magazinein December 2019 that he stopped paying attention to press about himself around 15 years ago.
“I stopped reading all press about 2004,” said theOnce Upon a Time in Hollywoodactor. “Not just reviews. I mean any magazine in the doctor’s office. Because some of it would bounce around like a rat in the skull. It would stay there, and it would inform some of my decisions and choices in work, in life, and I didn’t find any of it helpful.”
“I don’t go out of my way to avoid it; I just don’t seek it out,” Pitt continued.
TheAcademy Awardwinner added, “I don’t know how many women they’ve said I’ve been dating the last two or three years,and none of it’s true.”
source: people.com
