He celebrated her birthday with fancy dinner, paid for it

Jul 1, 2015 07:40 GMT  ·  By
Sean Penn is said to be rebounding after Charlize Theron with actress Minka Kelly
   Sean Penn is said to be rebounding after Charlize Theron with actress Minka Kelly

Just when the world thought it was hearing wedding bells for Sean Penn and Charlize Theron, they broke up. No reason was given for the split, but rumor has it that she couldn’t stand his violent temper anymore, after she’d seen the worst of it on a recent drunken rage.

He may be rebounding with Minka Kelly, reports in the media indicate. The two were seen together at Minka’s 35th birthday dinner party, which he paid for.

Sean and Minka could be happening

Photos available online, snapped by paparazzi inside the fancy eatery French Laundry in Napa, California, don’t show anything that would prompt the conclusion the two are dating, but TMZ says this is one case when a photo is not worth a thousand words.

A possible clue would be that, on her Instagram page, where Minka posted a photo of the birthday party, with the caption “Birthday festivities off to a pretty magical start,” she didn’t mention Sean.

Another one would be that only 2 other people were there, so the event was a very intimate one, with only the closest people to Minka. Then there’s the fact that Sean picked up the bill for the whole thing, which, the same media outlet stresses, wasn’t a mere trifle.

People Magazine insists that Minka and Sean “have been friends for a long time” and that the dinner party was “purely platonic,” but the rumor mill is already spinning.

A nasty split

Sean and Charlize had also been good friends for a very long time before they took it to the next level, sometime in 2013. They weren’t photographed together as a couple until a few months later, and by that time, things were already very serious with them: he had moved in with her and her son, and there was talk of marriage.

They walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival 2015 together, where Charlize was promoting “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and then they attended the Life Ball in Vienna. This would be their last public outing as a couple: according to reports, after the event, Sean drank himself into a rage and became physically and verbally abusive to her.

She broke it off that night and refused to speak to him afterwards, even though he continued to call her and beg for her forgiveness.

Because of his highly flammable temper, Sean Penn has somewhat of a reputation: he assaulted several paparazzi throughout the years and even his ex-wife Madonna.      

Birthday festivities off to a pretty magical start 🌟 #thankyou #napa A photo posted by Minka Kelly (@minkak) on Jun 24, 2015 at 12:59am PDT