TIM BURTON AND MONICA BELLUCCI MAKE RARE APPEARANCE TOGETHER AT 64TH GLOBO D'ORO AWARDS IN ROME
Bellucci, who received the Globo d'Oro lifetime achievement award, first confirmed her relationship with Burton in June 2023
Tim Burton and Monica Bellucci are having a glamorous date night!
On Wednesday, July 3, the film director, 65, was pictured at the 64th Globo d'Oro Awards in Rome with Bellucci, 59, who was honored with a lifetime achievement award.
In a rare public appearance, Burton kissed the side of the actress and model's face as they posed on the red carpet.
Burton wore a black shirt under a matching black jacket, while Bellucci sported dark sunglasses and a stylish sheer long coat.
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Appearing to be in good spirits, the pair held hands as they smiled for the cameras.
Bellucci also held her "Premio alla Carriera" award.
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The couple’s outing comes after they made their red carpet debut at the Diabolik Chi Sei? premiere during the 18th Rome Film Festival at Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome in October 2023.
At the event, the couple was photographed holding hands and Burton also placed his arm behind the Mafia Mamma star's back.
Bellucci confirmed her relationship with Burton in June 2023.
“What I can say … I’m glad I met the man, first of all,” she told Elle France. “It's one of those encounters that rarely happens in life ... I know the man, I love him, and now I'm going to meet the director, another adventure begins."
The pair had been working together on Beetlejuice 2 in London at the time, with Burton directing the follow-up to his 1988 horror-comedy film.
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"I love Tim," Bellucci said. “And I have great respect for Tim Burton."
"I love this dream world where the monsters are kind, like we can turn our darker aspects into something bright, forgiving,” she added to Elle France. "Tim Burton's films talk about that a lot."
While the pair previously met briefly on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival in 2006, it wasn’t until 2023 that romance rumors sparked.
After Bellucci presented the Edward Scissorhands director with a lifetime achievement award at the Lumière Film Festival in France in October 2022, they were spotted spending time together in Madrid in February 2023.
They were then seen kissing outside The Ritz Paris hotel on Valentine's Day the same month.
Bellucci shares daughters Deva, 19, and Léonie, 13, with ex-husband Vincent Cassel, to whom she was married from 1999 before they separated in August 2013. Burton shares son Billy, 20, and daughter Nell, 16, with ex Helena Bonham Carter.
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