Brad Pitt was thought to have romanced the brainy professor Neri Oxman.
The brunette beauty, 42, seemed to be the first woman the Allied actor, 54, had fallen for since his split from Angelina Jolie, with whom he co-parents six children.
But over the weekend the Israeli-born architect, computational designer and artist told The New York Times that she never dated the hunky star.
Oxman said she is dating hedge fund manager William A. Ackman. Still, Neri had plenty of praise for the Seven actor.
‘He is the last of the Mohicans in post-Netflix Hollywood. He brings together the timely and the timeless, which is what cinema is all about,’ said the teacher.
Oxman is a professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab.
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