Tim Burton finds love with Bond girl Monica Bellucci nine years after split from Helena Bonham-Carter
HOLLYWOOD director Tim Burton has found love again after his split from Helena Bonham Carter – and is now dating Bond girl and model Monica Bellucci.
The romance comes nine years after Burton’s high profile separation, with the pair seemingly smitten after enjoying a romantic trip to Paris together.
Sources say the A-list duo have been dating for around four months, having been seen together at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon last October.
During the event the Beetlejuice director, 64, was honoured with the Lumiere Lifetime Achievement award in honour of his four decade long career.
Italian actress Monica, 58, presented him with the award onstage with Tim quipping at the time: “All my life put together, I have never felt so much love as tonight.
“Welcome to the best funeral I ever had.”
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The duo were later seen hanging out together at the festival and watching a screening of an 1895 silent film by Louis Lumière.
Tim and The Crown actress Helena, 56, were together for 13 years after meeting when he cast her in 2001 film Planet Of The Apes.
They had two children Billy, 20, and Nell, 16, but split in 2014.
The couple famously lived together in adjoining houses in Belsize Park, North London, before knocking them together.
They remained friends after the split with Helena branding the director “very generous”.
She said at the time: “You go through massive grief — it is a death of a relationship, so it’s utterly bewildering.
“Your identity, everything, changes.
“Luckily I’ve kept both houses. He was very generous.”
Helena is now dating writer Rye Dag Holmboe, 34, who she met at a wedding in 2018.
Monica had been single since 2019 after splitting with artist Nicolas Lefebvre.
She was previously married to Vincent Cassel from 1997 to 2013.
The couple had two children, Deva, 18, and Leonie, 12