{"id":2286329,"date":"2026-02-17T21:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2286329"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:03:20","slug":"nicole-kidman-romantically-pursued-by-mega-rich-business-man-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nicole-kidman-romantically-pursued-by-mega-rich-business-man-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman romantically pursued by mega rich business man &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nicole Kidman is reportedly the current love interest of Paul Salem, the Chairman of the Board of MGM Resorts International. The businessman boasts a hefty\u2013though unspecified\u2013net worth due to his Chairman\u2019s salary and his over 1 million shares of MGM Resorts stock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/nicole-kidman\">Kidman<\/a>, 58, separated from her husband, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/music\/196511\/country-singer-keith-urban-rumors\">Keith Urban<\/a>, in 2025 after almost 20 years of marriage. The two finalized their divorce on January 6, 2026. The former couple shares two daughters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>She was previously married to fellow actor\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/movies\/172399\/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-screening\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Cruise<\/a>, with whom she was for 11 years before their divorce in 2001.\u00a0The pair met on the set of Days of Thunder before starring in Eyes Wide Shut and Far and Away together. Kidman and Cruise have one daughter and one son together.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Salem, meanwhile, divorced his wife, Navyn, back in 2021. The two have four children together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Salem remains relatively private about his personal life. Professionally, he is also a senior fellow at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/mei.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Middle East Institute<\/a>, which \u201cprovides expert analysis, research, and programs on the Middle East&#8217;s politics, economy, and culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Despite his quiet<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">, private life,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/16\/paul-salem-wants-to-date-nicole-kidman\/\" target=\"_blank\">a TMZ report s<\/a>ays<\/span>\u00a0he is actively pursuing the Australian actress. He has been open to friends about his interest in Kidman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kidman and Salem have yet to go on a date together, but have spent time together in group settings as acquaintances through mutual friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Since her separation from Urban in the summer, Kidman has not been officially linked to any romantic partners. The actress and her former country singer beau, also an Australian, divorced due to irreconcilable differences. She is the primary residential parent for their two teenage children and will spend 306 days of the year with them. Urban will spend 59 days with Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kidman\u2019s time with Cruise also came to a close due to irreconcilable differences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s the mother of my children, and I wish her well,\u201d said Cruise shortly after the divorce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Salem is reportedly making it clear that he is very interested in the Babygirl star. Kidman\u2019s team, meanwhile, claimed that the actress is still single and not dating anyone following her finalized divorce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Representatives for both Salem and Kidman have yet to offer official statements about the potential couple\u2019s budding relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>const Init=()=>{const interval=setInterval(()=>{if(typeof window.utag_data.consentData!=='undefined'){clearInterval(interval);ExpressApp.Log('[Facebook] consent data',window.utag_data.consentData)\nif(!window.isVendorConsented(window.utag_data.consentData,20,!0)){return!1}\nconst publisherPurposes=window.utag_data.consentData.tcfv2consent?.publisher?.consents\nconst consentPurposes=window.utag_data.consentData.tcfv2consent?.purpose?.consents\nif(!publisherPurposes[1]||!publisherPurposes[2]||!publisherPurposes[3]||!publisherPurposes[4]||!consentPurposes[1]||!consentPurposes[2]||!consentPurposes[3]||!consentPurposes[4]){return!1}\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','331470507705028');fbq('trackSingle','331470507705028','PageView')}else{ExpressApp.Log('[Facebook] Facebook is waiting for consent data')}},100)}\nif(typeof flagTcfLoaded!=='undefined'&&flagTcfLoaded){Init()}else{document.addEventListener('tcfLoaded',()=>{Init()})}<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Kidman is reportedly the current love interest of Paul Salem, the Chairman of the Board of MGM Resorts International. The businessman boasts a hefty\u2013though unspecified\u2013net worth due to his Chairman\u2019s salary and his over 1 million shares of MGM Resorts stock.\u00a0 Kidman, 58, separated from her husband, Keith Urban, in 2025 after almost 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2286330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22823,22860,341833,36290,442998],"class_list":["post-2286329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-relationships","tag-hollywood","tag-mgm-resorts-international","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-paul-salem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Nicole-Kidman-romantically-pursued-by-mega-rich-business-man.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286331,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286329\/revisions\/2286331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}