Brad Pitt and his people are having a harder and harder time denying the the movie hunk and amateur architect is getting romantic with Neri Oxman, a glamorous MIT professor who is a “rock star” in the field of art, architecture and design.
“Brad’s absolutely smitten by her,” a Pitt source revealed to Us Weekly. “Their chemistry is off the charts.”
It was reported last week that the 54-year-old actor, in the process of divorcing Angelina Jolie, had been spending time with the Israeli-born Oxman, a charismatic brunette who, some say, bears more than a passing resemblance to Jolie. The award-winning Oxman also is the same age as Jolie: 42.
Page Six first reported the “friendship,” saying Pitt and Oxman met through an MIT architecture project.
“Brad and Neri instantly hit it off, because they share the same passion for architecture, design and art,” the source told Page Six. But sources close to Pitt also insisted that they were just friends.
“This is best described as a professional friendship,” a source told Page Six. “Their friendship has not turned into romance … as both are cautious and this is, again, more of a professional friendship, but Brad is very interested in spending more time with Neri, she is fascinating.”
But another source has told Us Weekly a different story this week, contending that the two have been quietly dating since last fall. They became acquainted after Pitt admired a line of her 3D-printed chaise lounges at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she teaches media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts school’s Media Lab.
“They got romantically involved almost right away,” the insider told Us.
The news will no doubt disappoint Pitt fans who either hoped he’d reconcile with Jolie — after their nasty, splashy split in September 2016 — or even renew a romance with Jennifer Aniston. Pitt’s first ex-wife announced in February that she was ending her marriage to Justin Theroux.
Oxman is the first person to whom Pitt has been linked romantically since he and Jolie broke up after more than 10 years together. He and Jolie share six children, ages 9 to 16, and their breakup came with allegations of drinking and anger management problems — on his part — and investigations by child welfare authorities, until the couple quietly worked out visitation and other issues.
Jolie hasn’t officially been romantically linked with anyone since the split, though a curious report surfaced last month that she had been quietly dating an older, handsome Los Angeles-based real estate agent.
Because of the tabloid attention given to his relationships with both Jolie and Aniston, Pitt has gone “to great lengths” to make sure he and the Boston-based Oxman haven’t been spotted together.
This has involved taking secret international trips, including to the Design Indaba conference in South Africa in February, Us Weekly said. Oxman was a featured speaker at the event.
Oxman was previously married to Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov. The TED conference speaker is “a highly visible woman in an otherwise male-dominated field,” according to Surface magazine.
Oxman coined the term Material Ecology, a field which “seeks to unite principles of nature with those of engineering to create new materials for architecture and design,” according to a profile in MIT’s Spectrum publication. At MIT, she directs a research group that brings together faculty and students from such diverse fields as computational design, architecture, marine science, molecular biology, and physics, Surface magazine said.
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