I feel like I’m hallucinating with this Brad Pitt-Neri Oxman story. Many outlets are running the story like “Brad Pitt is spending time with brilliant MIT professor” or “Brad Pitt’s new lady is an accomplished architect.” But within every story, some Brad-source insists that Brad is not in fact dating Neri Oxman. All anyone really knows is that Brad met Neri Oxman last year, when he visited MIT. They clearly met, and they clearly know each other and perhaps they’re even friendly. But the stories actually make it sound like Brad is openly pursuing a woman who currently has a billionaire boyfriend. Which isn’t the same as “Brad has a new lady!”
Anyway, People Mag is milking this to a crazy level. They’re so eager to help Brad reclaim his image as their Golden Boy. They have the same story that LaineyGossip had last week: Brad met Neri Oxman after Thanksgiving last year:
Looks like Brad Pitt and new friend Neri Oxman have known each other for a while. The actor, 54, was spotted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology back in November where he seemingly dropped by one of Oxman’s classes the week after Thanksgiving. Several students posted pictures of the actor posing with the class, including one where he is standing next to Oxman.
“She’s genius and gorgeous,” an architect, who has seen Oxman lecture and knows her work, tells PEOPLE. The actor kept it casual in an all-black outfit as he happily smiled along with the students for several pictures. He also stood next to Oxman in another picture with his hands behind his back as the larger group beamed at the camera. That photo has since been taken down.
Page Six first reported last week that the two had struck up a friendship based on their shared love of architecture. Pitt reportedly met Oxman, 42, through an architecture project at MIT, where she works as a professor of media arts and sciences at the school’s Media Lab.
We already knew this – we knew that Brad visited MIT and that’s how he met Neri Oxman for the first time. What we don’t know is whether Brad and Professor Oxman have spent much time together since that first casual meeting. And I think it’s a bridge too far to claim that “Brad has been dating Neri Oxman for SIX MONTHS.”
A few more things – E! News wonders if all of this means that Brad is “leaving Hollywood.” Considering his next project is Quentin Tarantino’s movie about the Sharon Tate murder, probably not? Oh, and now people are trying to make this into another Uncool Bermuda Triangle, like Jennifer Aniston is “crushed” that Brad is “dating” Neri Oxman. I like how no one is even bothering to manufacture gossip about Angelina Jolie being “crushed” – Angelina clearly doesn’t give a sh-t. But Aniston? Please. I doubt she gives a sh-t either.
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