Reese Witherspoon is in a big little relationship with private equity financier Oliver Haarmann, a year-and-a-half after announcing her divorce from talent agent Jim Toth.
The “Big Little Lies” star, 48, and German co-founder of Searchlight Capital Partners‘ “casual” relationship was confirmed to People by multiple insiders, after they were seen together in New York City Wednesday.
“They’re friends and it’s just casual,” said one of the sources.
Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth attend the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards sponsored by Icelandic Glacial on January 5, 2020 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, CA. (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for Icelandic Glacial )
This week, Witherspoon and Haarmann, a New York Islanders’ minority co-owner, attended an opening event for Assouline in the city. The pair has been linked since at least late July, when they arrived in New York via helicopter on July 29 and ate at the West Village’s L’Artusi on July 30.
A source tells people that Witherspoon’s career and youngest son, Tennessee, 11, “are her biggest priorities” and she is “taking things slow when it comes to dating.” Another insider told the outlet Witherspoon and Haarman are “friends.”
In March 2023, the “Legally Blonde” star announced that she and Tennessee’s father, 54-year-old Toth, had “made the difficult decision to divorce.”
A joint instagram statement said, “We have enjoyed so many wonderful years together and are moving forward with deep love, kindness, and mutual respect for everything we have created together.”
Witherspoon — who also shares daughter Ava, 24, and son Deacon, 20, with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe — wed CAA hotshot Toth in 2011.