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Monica Bellucci, 58, and film producer Tim Burton, 68, have been secretly dating for four months
Italian actress Monica Bellucci and film producer Tim Burton have been secretly dating for four months.
The couple first met 16 years ago but are said to have started dating after seeing one another at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon in October.
Monica, 58,- who was an honourary guest at the event – presented a tearful Tim, 64, with the Lumiere lifetime achievement award on stage at the time.
As he was handed the prize, he said: ‘All my life put together, I have never felt so much love as tonight. Welcome to the best funeral I ever had!’
The pair were also seen heading in to watch the re-production of Silent Documentary Film, directed in 1895 by late French filmmaker Louis Lumiere.
Love: Monica Bellucci, 58, and film producer Tim Burton, 68, have been secretly dating for four months (Tim received the Lumiere lifetime achievement award from Monica in October)
All change: Helena Bonham Carter and long-term partner Tim Burton split in late 2014 after 13 years together, (pictured in 2012)
Paris Match writes that Monica and Tim ‘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.’
MailOnline has contacted reps for both Tim Burton and Monica Bellucci for more information.
Monica has been single since she split from artist Nicolas Lefebvre in 2019. She was previously married to Vincent Cassel from 1997-2013.
The former model met Cassel in 1996 on the set of Gilles Mimouni’s film l’Appartement.
They were together for three years before marrying in a quiet ceremony in Monaco, on the French Riviera.
Tim was famously in a relationship with The Crown actress Helena Bonham Carter, 56. but they sadly split in 2014.
The pair were never married, but were together for 13 years and share two children; son Billy, 20, and daughter Nell, 16.
Helena spoke about the split with Harper’s Bazaar magazine in 2016.
Weekend in Lyon: Monica was pictured with Tim Burton (left) out and about at the Lumiere Festival that October weekend
Hanging out: Vincent Macaigne (left), Vincent Perez, Monica Bellucci and Tim Burton posed for snaps before heading in for the re-production of Lumiere’s 1895 film
She said: ‘You go through massive grief – it is a death of a relationship, so it’s utterly bewildering. Your identity, everything, changes.’
She explained: ‘Just saying: “I’m not myself at the moment, so be careful. Everyone always says you have to be strong and have a stiff upper lip, but it’s okay to be fragile.’
Helena and Tim got together in 2001 after he cast her as an ape in Planet Of The Apes.
Past love: Monica was previously married to Vincent Cassel from 1997-2013 – pictured together in 2008
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