Natalie Portman Ditches Ring After Benjamin Millepied Affair Rumors

Natalie Portman stepped out for a day in Sydney with out her marriage ceremony ring — or her husband — on their eleventh anniversary.

Portman, 42, was photographed arriving on the Angel Metropolis Fairness Summit — an occasion for her Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League workforce, Angel City FC — on the Sydney Opera Home on Friday, August 4. She was seen strolling together with her palms in her pockets whereas sporting a gray blazer, white button-up shirt, denims and black flats. She accomplished the look with black sun shades, a black crossbody bag and assertion earrings.

Portman’s marriage ceremony ring was noticeably lacking from her left hand when out of her pockets.

The outing comes two months after Portman’s husband, Benjamin Millepied, was accused of dishonest on his spouse, with whom he shares son Aleph, 12, and daughter Amalia, 6. (The couple tied the knot on August 4, 2012.)

A supply solely advised Us Weekly in June that Portman felt “humiliated” by the allegations, noting, “Natalie believes Benjamin’s affair was a quick and silly liaison meaning nothing to him.”

A second insider, in the meantime, advised Us that Portman was uncertain whether or not she and Millepied would be capable to make issues work amid the scandal. “Proper now, they’re speaking and dealing on it collectively for the sake of their youngsters,” the supply shared, including that Millepied, 46, had “regrets” about his actions.

That very same month, Portman flashed her ring during a solo outing on the 2023 French Open whereas watching Coco Gauff and Iga Świątek’s match on June 7. Along with her sparkler, Portman rocked a floral lavender mini costume, which she accessorized with black sun shades, a black purse and a Christian Dior star hat.

Portman and Millepied met on the set of the 2009 Darren Aronofsky movie Black Swan, for which Portman scored the Oscar for Greatest Actress for her function as ballerina Nina Sayers.

“I feel I used to be in, like, dreamland. So, it was fairly … it appeared fairly enjoyable the entire time,” she recalled of working with Millepied in a June 2018 interview with Sirius XM’s City Corridor. “It was, like, I actually bought to know him after which that’s when it appeared, ‘Oh, proper, that is the individual.’”

Portman and Millepied tied the knot one 12 months after welcoming their son in June 2011. They grew to become a household of 4 in February 2017 with the birth of their daughter.

Earlier this 12 months, Millepied gave Us unique perception into how he and Portman balance their relationship and respective careers whereas selling his directorial debut, Carmen. “Effectively, [Natalie and I] share what we’re engaged on, however we’re like two artists with totally different ambitions and pursuits,” he stated in April. “However after all we share what’s happening, and I’m sending her a brand new script that I completed.”

Millepied went on to elucidate that engaged on Black Swan along with his spouse helped him put together to get behind the digicam. “Simply being on set and seeing administrators work with [Natalie] and different actors was very useful, for certain. Seeing simply how each director has a unique strategy to obtain attention-grabbing performances,” he shared. “I feel … the hardest a part of the journey was actually understanding why I used to be so attracted to creating movie as an artist … then now as a director and dealing on the script after which working with actors.”