Reese Witherspoon Is Dating Private-Equity Financier Oliver Haarmann: Sources (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Oliver Haarmann and Reese Witherspoon in New York City on Sept. 4, 2024.Photo:TheImageDirect.com

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Reese WitherspoonandOliver Haarmannhave taken their relationship to the next level.

Multiple sources confirm exclusively to PEOPLE that the pair have moved from friends to dating after they were spotted on Wednesday, Sept. 4, in New York City together for at leastthe second time in little over a month, this time for an Assouline opening event that also includedRoger FedererandAnna Wintour.

Financier Haarmann was dressed in khaki-colored pants and a dark-colored belt matching his shoes, with a tucked-in light-blue button-up shirt under a darker-blue blazer.

TheOscar-winning actress rocked a short-sleeved black dress and matching strappy heels as they walked together, holding a black coat in her left hand.

“They’re friends and it’s just casual,” an insider says of the pair’s romance.

A rep for Witherspoon has not commented to PEOPLE.

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Oliver Haarmann and Reese Witherspoon in New York City on Sept. 4, 2024.TheImageDirect.com

Witherspoon and Haarmann, a minority co-owner of the NHL’sNew York Islandersand founding partner ofSearchlight Capital, were previously photographed in the Big Apple on July 30.

The two arrived via helicopter on July 29 and dined at L’Artusi in the West Village neighborhood the following day.

A source told PEOPLE at the time that Witherspoon and Haarmann were “friends,” while another insider said theLegally Blondeactress was “taking things slow when it comes to dating.”

“She enjoys it but doesn’t want it to be a big focus. She’s busy with work and her son,” says the insider. “These are her biggest priorities.”

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Reese Witherspoon in Los Angeles on Sept. 12, 2022; Oliver Haarmann in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2016.David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty

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TheHello Sunshinefounder also shares two kids with her first husband, fellow actorRyan Phillippe: daughterAva, 24, and sonDeacon, 20.

Witherspoon previously opened up about how her divorce from Toth, 54,compared to her 2006 splitfrom Phillippe, 49, while speaking withHarper’s BAZAARfor the magazine’s August 2023 issue.

“To be able to talk to people directly about what’s going on in my life and just share it in the way that I share great professional experiences or personal experiences,” she said, “it feels much more authentic to be able tosay things in my own voiceand not let somebody else control what’s happening.”

Added Witherspoon, “Then, of course, there’s speculation, but I can’t control that. All I can do is be my most honest, forthright self and be vulnerable.”

source: people.com