From what I gather, Julia Fox was somewhat known in certain New York circles before Kanye West decided to Pygmalion her into his new muse/girlfriend. She was friends with the Safdie brothers, who cast her in Uncut Gems, and she was a model, photographer and fashion designer. People knew “of” her before Kanye got his hands on her, is my point. But what if Kanye wasn’t the first big-name celebrity she dated? What if Julia also had a thing with Drake prior to her thing with Kanye?

Julia Fox is in the middle of one of hip-hop’s bitterest beefs. The actress had a hot-and-heavy secret romance with Drake a year before she started dating his onetime archnemesis Kanye West, Page Six has exclusively learned. Sources say Fox, 31, has told West, 44, about her “Hotline Fling” with his rival Drake — who showered her with gifts including two Birkin bags — and that Ye is not thrilled about it.

We’re told the “Marvin’s Room” rapper, 35, first reached out to Fox via an Instagram DM to compliment her on her role in the 2019 Adam Sandler drama, “Uncut Gems.” But after Fox’s relationship with her longtime partner, Peter Artemiev, crumbled later that year, insiders say she got back in touch with Drake on the social media app. Insiders say they met up in New York soon after in February 2020, and the Toronto-born performer took Fox and a pal to the Bowery Hotel for drinks.

We’re told Drake then showed up to Bloomingdale’s — where Fox was doing a promotional gig — the next day to visit her at work.

“They closed down the store so he could visit,” said a source. The smitten pair continued their whirlwind romance when Fox flew to Los Angeles a few days after Valentine’s Day, where Drake gave her two of the famed Birkin bags, which cost from $20,000 up to $500,000.

“Then she went to [his hometown] Toronto to stay with him,” said the insider. We’re told Fox stayed at Drake’s vast 50,000-square-foot mansion, but her trip was cut short by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“They were closing the border [between Canada and the US], and she had to get back home,” said a source. Fox later rekindled her relationship with pilot Artemiev, with whom she has a 1-year-old son, drawing a veil over her rapper romance. Of course, Fox — who has since split with her baby daddy once again — famously started dating West after they met in Miami this New Year’s Eve.

[From Page Six]

That’s cutting it pretty close on the conception of her son Valentino, right? Valentino was born on January 18, 2021. Did… did she get pregnant with Valentino the DAY she reconciled with her husband? They closed the border between America and Canada in March 2020, so the timeline is VERY tight. Either that or the Drake thing is utter bullsh-t, or it’s not as involved as all of this. Well, I mean, there are several backstory options. I kind of believe that Drake probably did pursue her and maybe they hooked up. But who knows if it was this month-long romance? Eh. I halfway wonder if Kanye knew about it and that’s why he pursued Julia in the first place, to “get at” Drake in some way. The Drake-Yeezy beef has always been so weird and I do believe it’s partially about women/Kim.

Meanwhile, photographer Danielle Levitt posted some photos of Julia and Ye on his Instagram account several days ago. The kiss photo is very un-sexy. Probably because Kanye doesn’t look into it at all.

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Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Instar.