Carissa Duhamel – Copy Editor
After near-constant drama for the past several weeks reverberating through the media from the directions of stars Miley Cyrus and most of the Kardashian clan, last week was refreshingly quiet in the celebosphere. The definition of quiet in Hollywood, however, is up to subjective interpretation.
Gwyneth Paltrow, 41, certainly attempted to keep lips at Vanity Fair magazine hushed recently. Despite the actress’ efforts to prevent the publication from continuing an investigation on an alleged affair she had with Miami billionaire Jeff Soffer, 44, in 2008, Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter announced he has no plans of scrapping the article. The report centers around the friendship of Paltrow and Soffer, specifically during the reopening of the billionaire’s Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami for which Paltrow was personally flown in by the businessman to stay in his own home.
Paltrow, wife of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, 36, since 2003 and mother of their two children Apple, nine, and Moses, seven, adamantly denies allegations of any romantic involvement with Soffer. A representative for the movie star told US Weekly those accusations are “ridiculous.”
“She has been friends for him for a long time. Chris [Martin] is friends with him as well. He flew down a dozen friends. There was no romantic relationship,” Paltrow’s representative said.
Paltrow reached out to friends about the article as early as May of this year asking them to refuse discussion with Vanity Fair, as well as further business with the magazine.
“Vanity Fair is threatening to put me on the cover of their magazine. If you are asked for quotes or comments, please decline. Also, I recommend you all never do this magazine again,” Paltrow wrote.
Soffer, husband to supermodel Elle Macpherson, 49, since July 2013, has not commented on his and Paltrow’s supposed liaison.
In more light-hearted matters of the heart, 19-year-old actress Dakota Fanning stepped out in New York City with British model boyfriend and former lover of Adam Levine’s fiancée Behati Prinsloo, Jamie Strachan, 32. The two strolled through the city hand-in-hand between in-store shopping intermissions.
The pair have been a public item since early September when they appeared similarly together in the Big Apple with linked arms and large, toothy grins. A source told E! News then that the couple were not living together, but were “definitely a couple” and “had actually been dating for quite a few months.”
Though the young lovebirds’ romance is new, Fanning’s comments to Glamour magazine earlier this year may indicate this relationship is more serious than just a fling.
“I don’t really date,” she said, “I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. I’ve always thought that’s what it’s supposed to be like, and if it’s not, then I don’t want to waste my time on it. Even when I was 14, I was like, ‘I’m not gonna marry this person. What’s the point of doing it?’ It’s not me being naïve. I just know what it’s supposed to be like. And I think until I feel that, I cannot be bothered.”
Stranger things have worked out in Hollywood, but we’ll just have to sit and wait to how this 13-year age gap relationship unfolds.
