Sean Penn, 64, Makes Red Carpet Debut With Much-Younger Girlfriend Valeria Nicov, 30

Sean Penn‘s girlfriend, Valeria Nicov, 30, impressed fans when the couple walked down the red carpet at the Marrakech Film Festival.

The couple attended a star-studded event in Sean’s honor, with a guest list including Monica Bellucci, Tim Burton and Andrew Garfield. Penn and Nicov attracted the most attention due to the significant age gap.

WHO IS SEAN PENN’S GIRLFRIEND, VALERIA NICOV?

Penn, 64, wore a black suit and tie for his latest red carpet appearance, while Nicov modeled a flowing off-the-shoulder raven gown that cascaded to the floor. Concealing her figure in the voluminous flock, the Moldovan model and actress sharpened her siren features with makeup emphasizing her luminous complexion. Her dark hair was swept tightly back into a bun, lending her the air of the gamines similar to iconic stars such as Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.

Penn looked as lovestruck as ever as he gazed into Valeria’seyes that evening. Their romance went public at the beginning of September when they were spotted sharing a romantic holiday in Madrid. Valeria, who hails from the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, is Sean’s first relationship just three years after his divorce from his third wife, Leila George, after 15 months of marriage.

“I’m just free,” he said in an interview with The New York Times. “If I’m going to be in a relationship, I’m still going to be free, or I’m not going to be in it, and I’m not going to be hurting.”

Shortly before his latest divorce was finalized, Penn confessed in an interview with Hollywood Authentic that he was still “in love” with his then-estranged wife Leila and admitted to being neglectful during their marriage.

“I was not a cheat or any of that, but I allowed myself to think that my place in so many things was so important, and that included my place in being depressed and driven to alcohol and Ambien at 11 o’clock in the morning, by watching the news, by watching the Trump era, by watching it and just despairing.”

He noted that “beautiful, incredibly kid, imaginative young women who get married to a man quite senior to them in years, they don’t love it when they get up from their peaceful night’s sleep and their husband is still on the couch having been up since four, watching all of the crap that’s been going on in the world and has decided that 10:20 in the morning is a good time to neck a double vodka tonic and an Ambien and say, ‘Good morning honey, I’m going to pass out for a few hours and get away from all this.'”

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