Gisele Bundchen reportedly ‘spent time’ with Jeffrey Soffer, Tom Brady’s friend and Elle MacPerson’s ex

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Could love be in the air for Gisele Bundchen? The 42-year-old Brazilian model has befriended the billionaire hotel mogul Jeffrey Soffera source says Daily mail. “Gisèle spends time with Jeffrey Soffer. They have been seeing each other for several months now and secretly meet about once a week,” a person close to the duo said in a March 16 report.

It seems that Gisele and Jeffrey have known each other for a while, as the 55-year-old businessman is a pal of Gisele’s ex-husband, Tom Bradyand the Australian model’s ex-husband Elle MacPherson. Gisele and the NFL legend, 45, divorced in October 2022 after 13 years of marriage and months of breakup rumours. Jeffrey married Elle, 58, between 2013 and 2017. Although they don’t share biological children, Jeffrey – who owns the iconic Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida – has three from a previous relationship, according to THE Daily mail. Gisele, of course, shares two biological children with Tom: son Benjamin, 13 years old and his daughter Vivienneten.

Tom and Jeffrey, who is worth around $2.2 billion, got to know each other after Tom reportedly bought a $17 million lot next to him in Miami in 2020. The purchase was handled by company executives de Soffer, Fontainebleau Development, according to the Daily mail. The pals were also seen together a few times earlier this year, including during a fun pizza-making experience with a former football pro. David Beckham and some of their children.

Gisele nor Jeffrey have publicly commented on any sort of close relationship as of this writing. HollywoodLife contacted Gisele’s rep for comment on the report, but did not immediately respond.

Perhaps the new report will quell the months-long rumor that Gisele is secretly dating her jiu-jitsu instructor, Joaquim Valente. The pair have been spotted in recent months spending time together at Joaquim’s family training center in Miami and Costa Rica, where the former Victoria’s Secret angel often hangs out. This week they were photographed hiking on a dirt road in Costa Rica, and before that they were spotted riding horses in the Central American country. The relationship rumors caught fire in November 2022 after she was photographed having dinner with Gisele and Tom’s children at Koji, a restaurant in Costa Rica’s Puntarenas province.

However, someone close to the model said they weren’t dating but just had a close relationship earlier this year. “Gisèle adores and trusts [Joaquim] and spent a lot of time with him,” the source said. PEOPLE. “They have a deep personal relationship and he is a teacher for her and the children. Whether or not it becomes more than it stays on the table.

As the source noted, Gisele got to know Joaquim after enrolling her son in jiu-jitsu lessons. She then decided to try the art and fell in love with it. “At first, I didn’t even consider this for myself, to be honest with you. But when I bought [Ben] in the first class and I started talking with Joaquim, I realized that it was much more than self-defense,” she said. dust magazine in 2022.

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