Bradley Cooper and Huma Abedin are reportedly dating after being set up by Anna Wintour.
The power couple have been seeing each other for several months in secret, according to Page Six, and even arrived at the Met Gala together in May before parting ways to keep their affair under wraps.
Abedin, 46, formerly a top aide to Hillary Clinton and ex-wife of the disgraced New York congressman Anthony Weiner, and Bradley, 47, are both good friends of the longtime Vogue editor, 72.
Huma Abedin, 46, and Bradley, 47, are reportedly dating after being set up by Vogue editor Anna Wintour, 72
‘Anna definitely played matchmaker,’ a source told Page Six, ‘She’s BFFs with Bradley and adores Huma.’
‘Bradley has been quietly dating Huma for a few months now, [and] they’ve been keeping it really quiet,’ the insider said.
The source added that Abedin has confided that she was in a relationship, but was keeping the identity of the ‘new man’ in her life from even them.
‘She didn’t say who it was. She was keeping it very close to her chest.’
The relationship with the A-list actor is a far cry from Abedin’s marriage to Weiner, who was sentenced to 21 months in prison in 2017 for sexting a minor.
She wrote about the harrowing experience – which saw her caught in the middle of the media circus caused by her husbands lurid behavior – in a 2021 memoir, Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds. In it she revealed that she didn’t lost her virginity till she was with Weiner at 32-years-old.
‘I had my heart broken, dragged out, stomped on, humiliated. I lived with shame, in shame, for so long,’ she told The Cut in a 2021 interview before the release of her memoir, ‘In hindsight, I was in extreme trauma.’
Abedin told The Cut that the memoir was Wintour’s idea, adding that the famously icy editor was one of her strongest sources of comfort, and came to her ‘rescue’ during the public turmoil caused by her husband, who she shares a 10-year-old son with.
‘Just being out and being with her, I just felt sort of normal and loved,’ she said.
‘Bradley is a big step up from Anthony Weiner, to say the very least,’ the inside source said.
Bradley Cooper and Anna Wintour have reportedly been close friends for years (see together in 2015, left). Wintour and Abedin are also pals (seen together at event in 2021, right)
The relationship is a change up for Cooper, too, whose love life has long been marked by relationships with and rumors about models, movie stars, and pop singers.
According to Page Six, Cooper was seeing singer and actress Dianna Agron before he broke it off and shacked up with Abedin.
‘Bradley broke up with Dianna Agron and started dating Huma,’ the insider said.
Previously, Cooper dated Russian model Irina Shayk – who appeared on the cover of the 2011 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition – for just over four years between 2015 and 2019. They have a five-year-old daughter together.
During his relationship with Shayk, rumors swirled that he and A Star is Born co-star Lady Gaga were having an affair when they were seen getting close on and off the set of the torridly intimate film. Both denied the rumors and insisted they were merely close friends.
Before Shayk, Cooper was with model Suki Waterhouse for two years, and actress Zoe Saldana for two.
He dated fellow A-lister and Case 39 costar of Renee Zellweger following the breakup of his marriage to Jennifer Esposito.
He and Esposito’s marriage was short-lived – they were engaged in October 2006, and she filed for divorce in May 200
Cooper and Abedin’s previous love lives couldn’t be more different, the inside source felt that just like Wintour knows how to pick a dress, she can pick a couple too.
‘They are perfect for each other. They’re both into power and politics and human affairs,’ the source said
Abedin with disgraced ex-husband Anthony Weiner. In a 2021 memoir, she wrote ‘had my heart broken, dragged out, stomped on, humiliated,’ during her their marriage
Cooper dated Russian model Irina Shayk – who appeared on the cover of the 2011 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition – for just over four years between 2015 and 2019
Cooper dated model Suki Waterhouse (left) for two years, and actress Zoe Saldana (right) for two
Cooper and Esposito’s marriage was short-lived – they were engaged in October 2006, and she filed for divorce in May 2007. Cooper and Renee Zellweger reunited at the 2020 Academy Awards in Los Angeles. The pair dated after the breakup of Cooper’s marriage to Jennifer Esposito
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