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 Girls’s Soccer League staff, Angel Metropolis FC — on the Sydney Opera Home on Friday, August 4. She was seen strolling along 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 completely informed Us Weekly in June that Portman felt “humiliated” by the allegations, noting, “Natalie believes Benjamin’s affair was a short and silly liaison which means nothing to him.”

A second insider, in the meantime, informed 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 kids,” the supply shared, including that Millepied, 46, had “regrets” about his actions.

That very same month, Portman flashed her ring throughout 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 Finest Actress for her function as ballerina Nina Sayers.

“I believe 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 yr after welcoming their son in June 2011. They turned a household of 4 in February 2017 with the beginning of their daughter.

Earlier this yr, Millepied gave Us unique perception into how he and Portman stability 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 occurring, and I’m sending her a brand new script that I completed.”

Millepied went on to clarify that engaged on Black Swan along with his spouse helped him put together to get behind the digital camera. “Simply being on set and seeing administrators work with [Natalie] and different actors was very useful, for positive. Seeing simply how each director has a distinct strategy to obtain attention-grabbing performances,” he shared. “I believe … 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.”