Huma Abedin Is Engaged to Billionaire Alex Soros

Huma Abedin Is Engaged to Billionaire Alex Soros

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Belated congratulations to Huma Abedin and Alex Soros, who introduced their engagement on Wednesday. In line with “Web page Six,” the 38-year-old billionaire inheritor to the George Soros fortune popped the query to Hillary Clinton’s famously non-public former deputy chief of workers six weeks in the past, and the 2 are actually celebrating in Italy.

“This occurred … we couldn’t be happier, extra grateful, or extra in love,” Soros wrote in a submit on Instagram, the place Lauren Sanchez, Dasha Zhukova, Jenna Lyons, Olivia Palermo, Scooter Braun, and extra flooded the feedback with congratulations.

Abedin and Soros first went public with their relationship again in February, after Soros posted a Valentine’s Day Instagram Story of himself and Abedin sitting at a Parisian restaurant with roses on the desk. Since then, the duo have saved a low profile with a handful of public appearances, together with sitting courtside collectively at a Knicks recreation (the de facto exhausting launch) and attending the Met Gala collectively in Might.

Abedin was beforehand married to disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, who was sentenced to 21 months in jail for sexting a minor in 2017, the identical yr Abedin filed for divorce. She was rumored to be linked to Bradley Cooper in 2022 after a reported Anna Wintour setup. Soros, in the meantime, is a philanthropist and investor who manages the Soros Household Basis and the Open Society Foundations, a nonprofit that helps international democracies and human rights. George Soros — who donated over $8 million to the Clinton marketing campaign that Abedin vice-chaired in 2016 — named Alex the successor to his $25 billion empire final yr. In a 2023 interview with The Wall Avenue Journal, Alex Soros stated he deliberate to proceed utilizing household cash to assist liberal politicians in addition to assist causes resembling voting and abortion rights.

“One of the best ways I can describe the connection is easy,” a longtime buddy of Abedin’s informed “Web page Six” after the engagement. “After a variety of tumultuous years for Huma, she’s relaxed and blissful and in love.” Very blissful for Huma, and grateful for this candy tidbit of Democratic Get together information. We wanted it.