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Brad Pitt<\/strong> has a girlfriend. Well, it seems he\u2019s had a girlfriend, but now they\u2019re attending public events together. Well, they\u2019re not walking the red carpet together so much as, you know, being seen at the 12th annual LACMA Art+Film Gala<\/a> at the same time. The important thing here is that Brad Pitt has a girlfriend.\u00a0<\/p>\n This was not the first time they\u2019ve been spotted together. Pitt and Ines de Ramon<\/strong> went to Cabo<\/a> around last New Year\u2019s, and, prior to that, she attended<\/a> the premiere after-party of Pitt\u2019s recent flick Babylon.<\/em> The tabloids identified her as a \u201cjewelry exec,\u201d and have noted she was the first major person in his life since his separation from Angelina Jolie.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n So, it\u2019s by no means a new thing, but the anonymous sources have changed their tune. Nearly a year ago, certain unidentified voices, which I like to imagine as a Greek chorus, were singing softly to People,<\/em><\/a> \u201cThey are dating and having fun. They have a good thing going on. There is no stress. Brad is enjoying it.\u201d And now, the chorus is yodeling to the same publication<\/a>, \u201c[Pitt] introduces [Ramon] as his girlfriend,\u201d and \u201cis doing great with Ines.\u201d<\/p>\n There you have it. Brad Pitt is doing great with Ines.\u00a0They are attending industry parties together now, a sure mark of seriousness in a Tinseltown relationship, and the faceless chorus speaking on behalf of the actor is saying that he\u2019s saying he has a \u201cgirlfriend\u201d\u2014a more tenuous, but still thrilling, development.\u00a0<\/p>\n Maybe it\u2019s a little silly to be worrying over whether or not a man about to enter his 60s is \u201cofficial\u201d with the woman he\u2019s seeing, but it\u2019s to be expected. There is something deep in this culture\u2019s core, down there in the same place that has made Hallmark movies so successful, that can only feel settled when a bachelor is settled. Just ask Brad Pitt\u2019s fellow Oceans Eleven<\/em> actor George Clooney.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n