
Last updated: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Supermodel ELLE MACPHERSON and property tycoon JOHN HITCHCOX are officially an item following a long courtship.
The Australian beauty and Hitchcox - who is currently separated from his wife - moved quickly to quash rumours they were romantically involved last month (APR06), but they have now become comfortable enough with their love to go public.
Hitchcox says, "It started as a friendship and then we had a long courtship but now we are an item.
"We are taking it slowly and trying to be normal.
"We were originally introduced by a mutual friend years ago but it is only in the last months we have become close."
Macpherson, 42, split from French financier ARPAD BUSSON, who fathered her two sons - eight-year-old FLYNN and two-year-old CY - in July 2005.
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