Paula Patton has a new boyfriend & it’s a mess: he’s married & not even separated

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A few days ago, I saw the headline “Paula Patton has a new boyfriend” and I thought “good for her.” She was with Robin Thicke since they were just kids, and Paula has been doing the heavy lifting of raising her son Julian (whom she shares with Robin). In the years since Robin and Paula’s divorce, she hasn’t been seen with any serious boyfriend or anything. She’s been out promoting her latest film, and in an interview, she announced: “I have a boyfriend now… I haven’t called anybody a boyfriend. He’s my boyfriend! When you know, you know. I love him.” She also suggested that she met him through her son Julian, that her new guy has a kid Julian’s age and that they met at a kids’ basketball game. All of which sounded pretty cool… until Page Six revealed this:

Paula Patton‘s new beau is still married to his wife.

“They’re married, they’re not even legally separated,” a source exclusively told Page Six of Zachary Quittman, the man the 42-year-old actress recently gushed about in an interview while promoting her new movie “Traffik.”

“He doesn’t even have his stuff out of the house,” the source said Tuesday.

Patton’s new love interest, 37, who has been with his wife for nearly 20 years, is a real estate agent in Malibu and also “coaches a lot of kids sports [teams] so he’s known by a lot of families.” Coincidentally, Patton, 42, told Entertainment Tonight that they met through their kids’ sports activities in what she described as “a suburban romance.”

“If you have a kid and you have a basketball game, look at the daddies. He’s got kids, I got a kid. It’s one of those!” she said.

When reached by phone on Tuesday, Quittman declined to comment.

“I’m just kind of disgusted that [Paula] is being that callous to talk about the basketball game when we come from a very small town and everybody knows about this,” the source added in response to the specifics discussed in Patton’s ET interview.

Describing the father of two, another source told us, “He’s like a trust fund kid, his mom is like no. 1 in real estate, he’s a good salesperson so I’m sure he’s selling himself … he hasn’t really made anything of himself in his life and being in the spotlight is great for him,” adding, “he’s all about what he looks like, his body, his tattoos, he’s a very selfish man.”

Quittman has been living with Patton since the two started seeing each other approximately a month ago and has been tagging along on her “Traffik” press tour. We’re also told he will be joining her in London next week. Quittman’s now estranged wife who, “thought [Patton] was nice,” having spent time with her in social settings with other fellow moms, “has just been shocked.”

“She’s on the floor, [but] she’s so worried about the safety of the kids,” the source said. “She just doesn’t want to rock the boat.”

She will now start to pursue legal action towards divorce.

“[Patton] paints herself as the jilted woman who was left for another woman, but she’s doing the same f–king s–t, she’s a hypocrite,” the source said.

[From Page Six]

Well, that went from zero to DEFCON MESSY in about five minutes. One second we’re like “yay, Paula, go get some” then we’re like “oh sh-t girl, you really have a bad picker, don’t you?” And the fact that she’s, like, bragging about him in interviews already and they’ve only been seeing each other for a month AND he’s still married and hasn’t even moved out of the house he shared with his wife and kids? Damn.

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  1. Olenna says:

    What a hot effing mess. He sounds like he’s on the suave and charming spectrum of personality disorders. Paula, you need to wake up and run.

    • DesertReal says:

      Yep. Even everything in her statement about him made me cringe.
      Pump the brakes and do a U, Paula.

  2. minx says:

    Aw, come on Paula. Jeez.

  3. Bridget says:

    Sounds like someone got on the wrong side of the suburban Mommy Mafia. Good luck Paula.

  4. Sayrah says:

    What a crazy b. He’s still married with children and she’s bragging about this? Shame on you Paula and that pos boyfriend of yours.

  5. kate says:

    This is a truly terrible idea.

  6. Reef says:

    Jesus Jerome Christ. lol whoever that source is (his wife) is not here for Paula’s mess at all.
    I’m gonna wait for more because it sounds like this man has been selling dreams to his wife and Paula. No woman is this flagrant with another woman’s husband without encouragement.

    • VintageS says:

      I am sure his wife “just doesn’t understand him” and “they’ve grown apart”. Yuck.

  7. smee says:

    After that sleezeball of an ex-husband, i imagine she wouldn’t know a good man if she was handed one; and obviously she doesn’t – this guy sounds like a real winner – self-absorbed like RT. She should go ask Mel B how much $ she has left after “falling in love” with a self-centered user.

  8. Avery says:

    Paula doesn’t seem like she is all there. The lights are on but nobody is home. She always comes across as sweet but a serious ditz. The fact that she said she loves him after a month….girl you are not 16.

    • Jayna says:

      You can be in love within a month. Spouting it off to the world, especially when she has a kid and he had children and is still married, is another thing. Love doesn’t always last or that feeling of being in love, but your silly proclamations so soon do and will come back to bite you when it’s over in six months.

    • Yathink says:

      Saying you love someone that soon is weird but letting your new partner move into the house you share with your kid in that space of time is insane.

  9. roses says:

    That source just went all in.

    • Zapp Brannigan says:

      That source has to be either the wife or the mother-in-law because they took no mercy.

      • VintageS says:

        There should be no mercy. Cruel to his kids to be so flagrantly disrespectful of their mother.

  10. Bridget says:

    Also, that comment about checking out the dads at her son’s basketball games. Did no one tell her that the thing about scanning kids events for a date is that you have to make sure they’re not married? It’s not rocket science. Granted, she was with Robin Thicke forever, maybe she just had horrendous taste.

    • Kitten says:

      LOL yeah that was my first thought as well. I personally stay the f*ck away from dads for that very reason.

  11. Jenns says:

    She could have a bad picker, but she also could be an a-hole. Who brags about a dude like this? He JUST left his family, whatever the circumstances, to travel the world with you. And hunting “daddies” at kids sporting events? I’m pretty sure her dating technique/outlook has probably stopped maturing in high school. How insensitive for his family to have to read that. And way to put Julian in a completely uncomfortable situation! His teammates know what’s up, especially the coach’s child/ren. These poor kids. Way to go Paula.

    I think it is another one of the parents on the time that is roasting this guy. Someone who is friends with the wife and the other parents on the teams. I am here for it! Drag this douche! He puts his family through the wringer and then LEAVES for London. Yeah, that’s going to help his family heal through this whole mess. What an insensitive jerk. I’m sure his children will understand, though /s/.

    They both deserve what they get out of this relationship.

    • Kitten says:

      All of this. She sounds like a desperate woman, TBH.

    • Lela says:

      I agree with all of this. Seeing as she was with RT since high school I really think your assessment is correct and she probably still has a high school dating drama maturity level. This guy sounds like a complete d-bag, leaves his wife that he’s been with since he was 17 and his child and jets away with a c-list celebrity?!

  12. tracking says:

    She just might win the prize for worst picker, which is saying something in the Hollywood crowd.

  13. Kristen says:

    This is unfortunate. I hope the wife and kids get through this.

  14. hey-ya says:

    …Paula is messy end of…one minute she was the female lead in a Tommy blockbuster…since then only in movies no one sees or talks about…even Tarajis done better…unfathomable really…

  15. lucy2 says:

    Wow, that is messy.
    Still married, ditched his wife and kids for her, moved in with her right away, and is following her around on a press tour (meaning he has no job or responsibilities)? Sounds like she picked another winner. Good God, Paula.

  16. A says:

    Sounds like she and Thicke are both gross. Of course this married man is more at fault than her in the cheating situation, but I think most normal people wouldn’t go around bragging about it…

    • Cherrypie32 says:

      This situation makes me more convinced that Paula and Robin had an open relationship. Except this man’s soon to be ex-wife wasnt in on this one. sheesh!

  17. mannori says:

    she’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, let’s just put it that way, so this does not surprises me at all.

  18. Omg says:

    The source is really angry, huh? Did she homewrecker or were they separated but just not legally? Either way he’s the ass. I was hoping Paula had a decent guy.

  19. KiddV says:

    I think the wording is making is sound worse. While I do think it’s a huge mess and she has a bad picker, you don’t need to be legally separated from someone before a divorce, nor do you need to be divorced before you start dating. I never legally separated from my ex, I just picked up and moved out, leaving most of my stuff (he was controlling, verbally abusive and cheated on me). And believe me, he used a lot of the same language to make me look like the bad guy. So, yeah, Paula’s situation isn’t ideal, but I’m going to assume it’s not as scandalous as Page Six is making it sound.

    • Anon33 says:

      Why are you projecting your own situation onto this one? Do you think the creepy ass cheating dad is somehow being abused by his wife and is therefore in the right? Your comment has no relevance to this. I’m truly puzzled.

      • VirgiliaCoriolanus says:

        I think she’s saying that they may not have taken legal steps to end their relationship, but he could have already been moved out, etc and living a separate life when he got with Paula.

      • KiddV says:

        Exactly, VirgiliaCoriolanus, thank you.

        Anon33 – My comments make perfect sense and are quiet relevant to the article. I’m puzzled as to why you’re so sensitive to my remarks, you could have just scrolled on by instead of attacking me.

  20. Dee says:

    Ah come on Paula. She seems to just attract the sleeze.

  21. Wow says:

    Now, Paula…girl, REALLY?!?! Smh

  22. mtam says:

    Something is off… One month of dating and they’re in love, she’s talking publicity about him and he’s tagging along on her tour or w.e it is?
    Seems more like a jumpoff situation. There had to be at least some emotional cheating going on before the “separation” occurred.

    Also, this guy allegedly being a narcissistic, cheating douchebag—yeap that’s her type alright.

    • Oliviajoy1995 says:

      Geez. I hope she’s not pregnant. You’d
      think since Robin cheated on her while they were married she wouldn’t do that to another woman.

  23. VintageS says:

    Just saw the pictures of them together, and her smile is off. Simply creepy.

    • Omg says:

      This guy is sleazy and wants the fame. Paula really isn’t all that famous but I guess she’ll do. She looks happy as hell, too. Maybe she thinks a scandal will make her relevant?

    • Vesper says:

      Jesus! He looks like a hanger-on Casper Smart type. He’ll knock her up for a payday. She is just dumb and happy as can be. She’s the personification of the saying “Ignorance is bliss”! LOL

  24. Nicole says:

    Wow. She and Robin deserve each other. Both are messy and clearly cannot have appropriate adult relationships. How are you dating someone that hasnt moved out and clearly has not clued his wife into the fact that he’s with someone else. Wow. She’s just as bad as Robin.

  25. Lea says:

    He’s probably been cheating on his wife with her for months, that’s why she calls him her boyfriend that soon.
    She seems to like trust fund kids with issues.