Kimberley Owen is dating Love Island's Charlie Brake. Photos / Instagram, Getty Images
Kimberley Owen is dating Love Island's Charlie Brake. Photos / Instagram, Getty Images
Love Island star Charlie Brake has began dating Kimberley Owen - the daughter of New Zealand billionaire Steve Owen - fresh from his split from co-star Ellie Brown.
Sources revealed exclusively to MailOnline that Kimberley Owen, who is based in London, has found love with the ITV2 hunk,who is also heir to a fortune due to his family's wealth after selling the Brakes Food Company for £400 million.
The blonde beauty, who broke off a four-month engagement to property developer Greg Slade in April, posted mirrored social media shots earlier in the week which first set tongues wagging before insiders confirmed their romance.
Insiders have claimed the duo were spotted at Monaco's Buddha Bar in the midst of a week of staying on her father's super yacht, Zulu, for the Monaco Yacht Show.
No doubt with a lot in common, Charlie and Kimberley have been enjoying the finer things in life. The Kiwi stunner splits her time between family houses in Maui, a Belgravia home and a super yacht in the Mediterranean.
Love Island fans were stunned earlier in the week when it was announced that Charlie and Ellie were the latest stars of the season to have ended their romance, shortly before his new love was revealed to MailOnline.
A source close to Charlie: "He is romantically involved with Kimberley. It's obviously early days because he has only recently separated from Ellie.
"He is spending time with Kimberley in Monaco and enjoying her company. He got together with Kimberley after he split from Ellie."
The first hints at their union came when the duo shared matching images of heart-shaped sky writing in Monaco before she posted a shot of three of Charlie's pals on her father's yacht with the hunk tagged in the shot.
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While he is in the early stages of his new relationship, Charlie insisted he has not cheated on Ellie after he was spotted out with a mystery woman days ago.
Sources told The Sun: "The woman was a friend. He told Ellie he was seeing mates and left it vague. He knew she would kick off if he was out with another woman and he just wanted a bit of time away from her."
MailOnline has contacted representatives for Ellie and Charlie for comment.
Not short of drama in their respective love lives, Kimberley hit headlines in her native New Zealand earlier this year when it was revealed she was engaged to property developer Greg - before news of their split arose in April.
At the time of the New Year's engagement, which took place at Charlie's favoured holiday location Gstaad, sources said: "Greg proposed over dinner in Gstaad, in a private chalet that was made of glass and it was snowing outside, so was beautiful."
The couple were dogged by drama however when Gregory's ex-girlfriend Irina Fedotova launched a smear campaign against him, leading to her conviction for harassment and the eventual deterioration of Kimberley's engagement.
The Russian model admitted two charges of harassment without violence and was fined at Westminster Crown Court, after she created a fake newspaper article to "smear her ex as a pervert, sent him suggestive texts and pretended to be pregnant".
Following the torment, a source close to Kimberley told Spy: "Kim has been through a very hard time with all of this negativity coming at her, she is the light of any room she goes into, people love her and the last thing she expected from her dream engagement was drama like this...
“Slade and Kim are no longer engaged. Kim is feeling embarrassed and very let down. The family members are not going to lower themselves to comment on the court case, or Slade or Fedotova, they are a distant memory. It is an understatement to say that it had been stressful and very upsetting for Kim.”
