Tim Burton and Italian actress Monica Bellucci have ended their relationship after nearly three years together.
“It is with much respect and deep care for each other that Monica Bellucci and Tim Burton have decided to part ways,” the now-exes told the AFP in a joint statement on Friday, September 19.
Bellucci, 60, revealed in 2023 that she started dating Burton, 67, after being cast in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. (Burton famously helmed 1988’s Beetlejuice, which spawned a sequel that hit theaters in 2024.)
“What I can say … I’m glad I met the man, first of all,” Bellucci told Elle France in a profile published in June 2023. “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.”
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At the time, the actress further gushed about joining the Beetlejuice sequel as Delores LaFerve.
“I love Tim, I have great respect for Tim Burton,” she added.
Bellucci and Burton made their red carpet debut in October 2023 at the Rome Film Festival premiere of her movie Maria Callas: Lettere e Memorie.
The next year, Bellucci offered further insight into the pair’s romance.
“As far as I’m concerned, I’m with Tim. Not with Tim Burton the director, but Tim, a person I love,” she told Paris Match in June 2024.
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Bellucci was previously married to her Irreversible costar Vincent Cassel from 1999 to 2013, during which time they welcomed two children. Burton, for his part, shares two children with ex Helena Bonham Carter.
“I went through a very painful divorce,” Bonham Carter, 59, said on the “Therapy Works” podcast in 2022 of her 2014 breakup. “It was a long-lasting thing. That’s the other thing, it’s not that finite. It never ends.”
She added, “Even if you divorce somebody, it’s a kind of marriage if you have children with them. The relationship has to change. It’s a very complicated thing how to share the children.”
Bonham Carter and Burton, who were frequent onscreen collaborators, were together from 2001 to 2014 but never legally wed.
“I wanted to wear something to indicate to people that I’m not my normal self. I’m in mourning, and I’m under reconstruction,” the Crown alum recalled on the podcast of ending their relationship. “We should bring back a uniform for mourning because it gives an indication to people that you’re not yourself and nor should you be yourself.”
