Photographers caught Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau leaving E. Baldi in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night, holding hands on the way out, in photos Page Six says it obtained exclusively. Perry wore a black top with a matching belt, boots and light-wash jeans. Trudeau, the former Canadian prime minister, wore a navy sweater and black jeans, and opened the door of a black van for her.
As far as the evidence goes, it's a dinner. Two people, a restaurant, a car door. Page Six reports the pair have been dating for over a year, and that Trudeau separated from his wife, Sophie Grégoire, in August 2023. Those are the publication's details, and they're the kind of thing a casual sighting can't confirm on its own. Nobody involved has spoken about the relationship in the piece.
The timing is the part we can't skip. Page Six reports that Russell Brand, Perry's ex-husband, was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after being found guilty of rape and sexual assault. Perry has not publicly commented on his case. Her silence is not a statement about anything, and it's worth remembering that the women at the centre of that trial are the people this story is actually about.
Page Six also resurfaced a 2013 Vogue quote in which Perry described Brand as controlling. That remark is more than a decade old and was not a comment on the case, so it shouldn't be read as one.
What we're left with is a photograph of two people walking to a van. Everything else is the public filling in the gaps. We'll be watching the car door like everybody else, and waiting for anyone involved to say something in their own words.
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