Brad Pitt & Neri Oxman: Why BFF George Clooney Is Hoping Their Relationship Becomes Serious

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APRIL 11, 2018 8:57PM EDT

Brad Pitt & Neri Oxman: Why BFF George Clooney Is Hoping Their Relationship Becomes Serious


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Word has it Brad Pitt’s close friend George Clooney is hoping he and Neri Oxman’s rumored relationship sticks! Here’s why!

Hoping that Brad Pitt, 54, has finally found love with MIT professor Neri Oxman, 42, following his highly publicized split from Angelina Jolie, 42? If so, you are definitely not alone! According to our insiders, Brad’s best bud George Clooney is also pushing for this rumored romance to turn into something serious. “George would be thrilled to see Brad get serious with Neri,” an insider tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. “This new connection is clearly good for Brad, he’s got a spring in his step again.”
The insider went on to add that another reason George would like Brad to get coupled up with Neri is so his better half, Amal Clooney, might get a new like-minded friend in the process. “And he knows it would score points with Amal. He’s always tying to impress her, he still has her on this huge pedestal. He loves the idea of them all going out on double dates, he’s sure that it would please his wife to be spending time with other super well educated woman.”

These new juicy details arrive just days after a report surfaced that the Allied actor and Neri supposedly struck a relationship in 2017. They reportedly met when the movie star visited an MIT architecture project in November of last years. “Brad and Neri instantly hit it off because they share the same passion for architecture, design and art,” a source told Page Six. “This is best described as a professional friendship. Their friendship has not turned into romance … as both are cautious and this is, again, more of a professional friendship, but Brad is very interested in spending more time with Neri, she is fascinating.” Could it be a real love connection? Guess we’ll just have to wait and see!

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April 12, 2018 11:53 AM

MIT professor and architect Neri Oxman may be just Brad Pitt‘s type, an insider tells PEOPLE in the latest issue.

Like his buddy George Clooney’s human-rights lawyer wife Amal Clooney, Oxman is a highly educated expert renowned in her field. Described as “genius and gorgeous” by a source, Oxman, 42, could be a similar match for the 54-year-old Pitt as he starts dating again.

“It took him a long time to date, but he is now,” the insider tells PEOPLE. “He likes women who challenge him in every way, especially in the intellect department. Brad has seen how happy and different Amal has made his friend. It has given him something to think about.”
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Brad Pitt and Neri Oxman
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Brad Pitt and Neri Oxman
While a Pitt source has maintained he and Oxman are “just friends,” they’ve met up a few times since the fall and the insider notes Pitt has been flying frequently to the East Coast. He dropped by one of Oxman’s classes last fall and was spotted at MIT again a few weeks ago.


Pitt and Oxman got to know each other through an architecture project at MIT, where she works as a professor of media arts and sciences at the school’s Media Lab. Pitt has always been interested in architecture and founded the Make It Right Foundation, which builds affordable and environmentally friendly homes in New Orleans for people in need.

“One of the things Brad has said all along is that he wants to do more architecture and design work,” another source says. “He loves this, has found the furniture design and New Orleans developing work fulfilling, and knows he has a talent for it.”
 

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Neri Oxman and David Edwards with Oxman’s piece on the left
Neri Oxman and Le Laboratoire gallery founder David Edwards with one of Oxman’s biologically-inspired works.

This is the first time the actor has been linked with someone since his September 2016 split from Angelina Jolie. While the two are still negotiating the terms of their divorce and custody of their six children — Maddox, 16, Pax, 14, Zahara, 13, Shiloh, 11, and 9-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne — Pitt has started to seem like his old self again in the wake of the difficult split.

“Separating was very sad and shocking to him, but he started taking care of himself again,” adds the insider. “He seems much, much happier.”