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- New York Post
Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin split for ‘final' time: report
Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin are over — for good.
The couple have ended their eight-year on-off relationship once again, People reported on Wednesday.
'It feels final this time,' an insider shared.
7 Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin step out together.
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The Post reached out to a rep for Johnson for comment.
The 'Fifty Shades of Grey' actress, 35, who is the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, and the Coldplay frontman, 48, first started dating in 2017. They were last pictured together in Malibu on May 16.
7 Chris Martin takes his girlfriend Dakota Johnson out with their new Puppy Zeppellin.
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In 2024, an insider told the outlet that the exes had been engaged for 'years' but were 'in no rush to get married.'
In August of that year, Johnson's rep confirmed to The Post that the two did not end their engagement despite rumors.
'The reports are not true. They are happily together,' the rep shared at the time.
7 Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson.
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At the time, sources told the Daily Mail that the musician had 'accepted the relationship is over and it was 'best to move on' after seven years with the 'Madame Web' actress.
'Chris and Dakota have tried desperately hard over the past few months to make their relationship work,' the insider claimed. 'They'll always have love for each other but they've both come to the conclusion the relationship cannot be sustained long-term.'
7 Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin grabbing coffee in Malibu.
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7 Dakota Jonhson and Chris Martin step out.
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'They're both busy people,' they continued. 'Chris has been in Europe with Coldplay and they both have personal priorities, passions and work commitments which don't naturally intertwine with each other.'
'They wanted it to work but it just hasn't,' the source continued, 'and they've now accepted it is best to move on.'
In 2019, the pair allegedly broke up because Martin wanted to have children; however, they reconciled soon after.
7 Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson at the Claridges Hotel in London.
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Johnson and Martin first got together three years after Martin and his ex-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, 'consciously uncoupled' before finalizing their divorce in 2015. The exes share kids Apple, 21, and Moses, 19.
Over the years, Paltrow, 52, and Johnson have gotten close with the Goop founder gushing over their tight bond in 2020.
7 Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin.
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'I love her,' she told Harper's Bazaar. 'I can see how it would seem weird because it's sort of unconventional. But I think, in this case, just having passed through it iteratively, I just adore her. I always start to think of the ampersand sign — what else can you bring in, instead of being resistant to or being made insecure by? There's so much juice in leaning in to something like that.'
