by Casting Amal Clooney is a lot of work. But when the 46-year-old human rights lawyer appeared on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival with her husband, George, and her Wolf co-star Brad Pitt, everyone was talking about the glamorous, hair-haired brunette standing next to her. This was the first time that Pitt – who divorced Angelina Jolie in 2016 – officially introduced the world to his new girlfriend, Ines de Ramon.
Unlike Angelina, who was born into Hollywood royalty (as the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand) and made her screen debut at the age of seven, Ines de Ramon is not in the industry at all. In many ways, she is the anti-Angelina, staying out of the spotlight that Jolie has brought to her for years in the public eye, with her high-profile charity work, film production company and fashion brand Atelier Jolie.
While this may have been their first red carpet photo together, Ramon, 34, was first linked with the Oscar-winning actress in November 2022, when they were spotted backstage at a Bono concert.
But unlike Pitt and Jolie, who fell in love with the series Mr & Mrs Smith In 2003, Ines and Brad met through mutual friends and are taking things quite slowly, especially by Hollywood standards (and Brangelina standards – Pitt and his ex-boyfriend were adopting their first child Zahara with married a few months after his separation from Aniston).
After that first Bono backstage spot, Ines and Brad were pictured together at the after-party for Pitt’s film. Babylon and at Pace, an Italian restaurant in Hollywood, both for Pitt’s 59th birthday in late 2022.
A year later, Pitt was referring to Ines as his “girlfriend” and in February 2024 she moved into his Los Feliz home. But until this week, Hollywood’s hottest new couple had kept a remarkably low profile bar appearing at this year’s British Grand Prix. So who is the mysterious new leading lady in Pitt’s life?
She may be the anti-Angelina, but de Ramon has a lot in common with Amal Clooney, in that she speaks multiple languages, lives all over the world, and has her own successful career out of Hollywood.
De Ramon’s upbringing with her devout Spanish Christian family in Cologne, a Swiss suburb of Geneva, seems to have extended beyond Jolie’s, who went to Beverly Hills High and was taking heroin at the age of 20.
According to a Swiss blog, when de Ramon attended the prestigious Collège Calvin high school, she and her friends were “among the most popular girls in the school”. When her Instagram was public, she captioned most of her photos in French, but according to LinkedIn she is also fluent in English, Spanish, German and Italian.
After graduating from the University of Geneva in 2013, with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, de Ramon entered the jewelery industry, with previous roles in the jewelery department at Christie’s and at Swiss luxury jeweler de Grisogono. She clearly knows her gems, and has several certifications in her field such as GIA Colored Stones Essentials and GIA Diamond Essentials.
She seems to keep the actor close to her heart by wearing a necklace with the initials “B”. She is also a qualified nutritionist and health coach, which suits Pitt – who is said to be sober and vegan – and his new lifestyle. Although Jolie’s wild child days were behind her when she met Pitt, they still share a vineyard and Pitt has said he was “drinking too much” during their marriage.
Although she is not in the public eye, de Ramon has a high-powered career. For the past three years, de Ramon has worked for LA-based jewelery brand, Anita Ko – one of Net-A-Porter’s best-selling jewelery lines, worn by stars including Kourtney Kardashian and Hailey Bieber. She is now vice president of the company.
“Anita Ko is an everyday diamond,” says Sarah Royce-Greensill, contributing jewelery editor at The Telegraph. “It’s that very casual but polished LA look, lots of diamonds layered with jeans and a white T-shirt.”
It doesn’t matter what de Ramon includes herself and in February 2022, she even starred in a photo campaign for the brand, which she shared with her 85k followers on her Instagram (her social media has been set to private ever since she’s dating Brad) . On the red carpet of Venice, she wore a chic, figure-hugging asymmetrical white dress, accessorized, of course, with diamond earrings.
Although she is not an actress or a model, this is not the first time de Ramon has taken on a Hollywood role. Before Brad, she was married to Paul Wesley, best known for his role in the teen TV show The vampire diaries. The couple married in 2019 and have enjoyed a discreet lifestyle away from the glitz of awards shows, mostly posting pictures of themselves walking their rescue dog.
In contrast, Jolie’s previous dating history was a bit more colorful. She wrote the name of her great-grandfather, Jonny Lee Miller, on her shirt in blood, and wore a vial of another ex-soldier’s blood – that of Billy Bob Thornton – around her neck.
One reason Brad and Ines may have wanted to fly under the radar until now is that de Ramon only finalized her divorce from Wesley in February 2024. But Pitt and Jolie’s acrimonious divorce is underway, and the artistic director of the Venice Film Festival, Alberto Barbera, revealed that Pitt and his ex-wife were strategically scheduled to avoid any chance of running into each other.
“Angelina will be on the first day, Thursday, and she will leave immediately after [Maria director] Pablo Larraín to go to Telluride [film festival in Colorado],” he said Vanity Fair. “So Brad will only come to Venice on Saturday. There’s no way they can cross each other.”
“The timing of Brad and Ines going public is very interesting,” says Rachel Richardson, who writes the pop newsletter. Highly flammable. “I wonder if their decision to step out at the Venice Film Festival was a steal, given that Angelina Jolie is also there promoting her film.”
After splitting from Jolie, Pitt was linked to models Emily Ratajkowski and Nicole Poturalski, and – perhaps more surprisingly – MIT professor and architect Neri Oxman. A source says: “He likes women who challenge him in every way, especially in the intellectual department. Brad saw how happy and different Amal has made George. It gave him something to think about.”
“After so many high-profile relationships, maybe Brad will have more luck with a normie,” says Richardson. “I am surprised by Ines de Ramon’s confidence. Standing in front of the world next to Amal, George and Brad would be intimidating to anyone, but she more than holds her own. She is a wonderful woman who is very talented in her own right and it is a testament to Brad’s reign that the 26-year age gap between them is not so obvious.”
In fact, Pitt, now 60, looked so young in Venice that rumors of a makeover have since gone viral.
Or maybe it’s just about being in love? Sources close to the couple say he has “never been happier” and that they have been trying for a child for a year. Brad already has six children with Jolie, but is said to have “virtually no contact” with his four grown children and visitation rights with his two younger children.
In Venice, Jolie, 49, was moved to tears at the prospect of eight minutes of her film Mariaa biography of opera singer Maria Callas. Meanwhile, Brad and Ines were pictured with Amal and George on a double date on a mahogany boat (in matching outfits), and made their entrance when they arrived at the festival, with Brad wearing statement yellow trousers. Since his split from Jolie, Pitt has been celebrated for his “dopamine dressing”, and now regularly wears bright colors on the red carpet, after years of monochrome matching in the Jolie era.
Ines and Brad are sad news for everyone who was hoping that Brad would get back together with Jennifer Aniston, after the former couple were pictured holding hands at the SAG awards in 2020. But while the “Braines” has the same ring to it. as “Brangelina”, this new A-list couple may go far. And if he does pop the question, at least Ines will know exactly where to find the ring.
