In the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires, Jennifer Aniston is holing up far away from Hollywood - and from persistent rumors of an affair with Barack Obama.
The 56-year-old actress is fleeing to Santa Barbara for a "fresh start" after a series of heartbreaks, sources told RadarOnline.
“She’s hopeful that a fresh start might make it easier to find love again,” a source said. “It’s been so long since she’s had a relationship – she really misses that companionship.”
Aniston's $15 million Tuscan-style farmhouse, purchased from Oprah in 2022, is located along California's Central Coast in Montecito, a wealthy town in Santa Barbara County.
Known as the American Riviera, Santa Barbara is famous for its affluent residents, beautiful architecture and comfortable distance from Hollywood. The town is not without drama, being the home of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
According to insiders, Aniston is embracing her new surroundings as rumors swirl of a romance with former President Obama.
“Jen was going to have her people either not respond or give a ‘no comment’, but she thought that would add fuel to the fire,” sources said, per RadarOnline.
"She decided to shut it down before it could get even more out of hand.”
Beneath the juicy gossip about an affair with a U.S. president is a sad reality: one of the most successful actors of her generation is lonely. While the 56-year-old star has a vibrant social life, her home feels empty when her friends aren't around.
“Jen does her best to fill up her world. She’s got a lot of wonderful friends, dotes on her precious fur babies and even fosters others, but there are only so many dinner parties or girls’ nights she can throw,” an insider said. “The sad reality is that she is alone a lot of the time. She has her staff around during the day, which helps because they’ve become like family to her.”
The former Friends actress has been luckless in love, having gone through two divorces to Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux.
Apart from her struggles to find companionship, Aniston has been caught up in a bizarre rumor about an affair with President Obama, who has faced his own share of gossip about trouble in his marriage to Michelle Obama.
Aniston dismissed the speculation in good humor when she was asked about it by Jimmy Kimmel last year.
“Of all the calls you get from your publicist where you’re just like, ‘Oh, no, what’s it gonna be?’ or you get an email saying some cheesy tabloid is gonna make up a story—and then it’s that,” Aniston told Kimmel. "I was not mad at it,” she continued, but, added, “That is absolutely untrue.”
