Rumors Swirl Around Pitt and Paltrow

June 20, 1997
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The rumor mill is working overtime trying to find out what went wrong
with the seemingly fairytale romance of Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Theories ranging from another woman to the possibility that it's all a
hoax have surfaced since the couple's split was announced on Monday.
So, as a public service to all those women who have written in,
offering to console Brad personally, here's the latest: According to
Pitt's publicist, the couple is in contact. "They are definitely
talking," Cindy Guagenti, Pitt's rep, tells USA Today. "There's no
animosity between them, so you never know what will happen." People
magazine, which has a cover story on the former lovebirds set to hit
the stands next week, speculates that Pitt's fear of commitment was
behind the break-up. People's Mitchell Fink reports that Pitt is
living in his New York apartment while filming Meet Joe Black, and
that Paltrow is staying with friends. New York Post columnist Cindy
Adams ran an item on Thursday linking Pitt with Claire Forlani, his
Joe Black co-star, but Guagenti insists that there's not one "iota of
truth" to the rumor. "Since nobody knows the truth, everybody's making
up reasons," she says. Forlani's spokeswoman, Becca Kovacik, also
denies the claims that her client is involved with Pitt, telling USA
Today: "If Brad was doing a movie with an eighty-year-old actress,
people would probably link them together." And as far as speculation
that the entire break-up is a hoax to throw the media off the couple's
trail so they can marry in private? "That's demeaning to their
relationship for them to pretend to break up," Guagenti tells the
paper. "Who needs that kind of publicity?"