Uma Thurman and her multi-millionaire fiance Arki Busson have split up. The New York-based Kill Bill star and hedge-fund boss Arki have struggled to make their long-distance relationship work and have called off their engagement.
“Uma and Arki were due to attend a gala together on April 8, but Uma showed up without her engagement ring or her fiance,” says a source. “Arki was scheduled to attend and it seemed clear there was only one reason why he didn’t show — because he and Uma are no longer an item.”
Another source adds: “Uma lives in New York while Arki lives in London. He has been out and about without Uma since October when he went to a Halloween party alone. They have been at one or two events together, like Harvey Weinstein’s pre-Bafta party in February, but on that occasion they looked miserable.”
This is the second time Thurman, 43, has broken off an engagement with the French-born tycoon since they began dating in 2007.
In 2009, she returned an eight-carat diamond ring to him a year after he first proposed. She took him back in 2011, and by 2012 they were engaged again, with Thurman pregnant with their first child, Rosalind. She has not been seen without her engagement ring since — until now.
Thurman has two children from her earlier marriage to actor Ethan Hawke. Arki, 51, has two sons from a relationship with supermodel Elle Macpherson.