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Katie Couric was with the same live-in lover for five years. Did you know that? Not only did she have herself a nice piece, he’s 17 years younger than her. The dude’s name is Brooks Perlin. Brooks and Katie met in 2006, and according to sources, once they got together, Katie couldn’t stop bragging about how she bagged a hot young piece. Earlier this year, they were even photographed together in Miami, where Brooks was showing off his furry moobs and Katie was sunning herself. Anyway, Brooks and Katie are over! Ten bucks says she finds herself another young stud.
Katie Couric has split with her boy-toy boyfriend Brooks Perlin after five years, Page Six can exclusively reveal. Sources tell us things have been rocky between the couple for months, and handsome Brooks, 17 years Katie’s junior, is moving out of her Upper East Side home.
A friend, speaking on Couric’s behalf, confirmed to us, “They have decided to move on. Brooks is a great person and a real gentleman; he and Katie enjoyed their time together. But after five years, they have decided it was time to go their separate ways. Brooks is in the process of moving out of her home.”
Another source told us, “Three months ago, Brooks was looking for a broker to find a new place to live. He stopped looking because they decided they were going to try to make things work.”
In May, Couric, hinted the future was cloudy for her and Perlin, CFO at Eco Supply Center, a green building-materials distributor. She told People, “I am in the process of figuring out the future, and so is he. I am really happy in my personal life . . . but it is complicated.”
Mother-of-two Couric, 54, who lost her husband, Jay Monahan, to colon cancer in 1998, met Perlin in 2006 at an event to raise money for cancer research at the Louis Licari Hair Salon.
Speaking of their meeting, she said, “I thought he was really cute. He asked me if I wanted to have dinner sometime, and I liked that it was so direct and natural.”
Of the age difference, she told People, “I’ve been called all kinds of things. I’ve been ‘cougared,’ which was just obnoxious. But it’s good enough for Demi, right?”
Of Perlin she added at the time, “He’s incredibly kind, caring and sensitive . . . Even if we are not on the same page all the time, I like being in his space.”
But Couric isn’t sitting around nursing a broken heart, her friend added. She is channeling her energy into her syndicated daytime talk show with ABC, which starts in September.
[From Page Six]
It sounds like both Katie and Brooks knew that it wasn’t going to last forever, and they were surprised that they could make it work for so long. And yes, Katie is a cougar. Before Brooks, it was Chris Botti, another much-younger dude. The one thing that I liked about Katie and Brooks, however, was that although Brooks got the “boy-toy” label, he had his own stuff going on. He had family money AND a job. He’s 17 years younger than Katie, but that makes him 37 years old right now. Not really a “boy toy” at the end of the day.
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