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Interpol's Paul Banks Dating Helena Christensen?

It seems that model Helena Christensen has acquired quite a taste for younger men. The 39-year-old looker, recently rumored to be dating 29-year-old actor Josh Harnett, is now being spotted all over the map ... well, all over 29-year-old Interpol frontman Paul Banks.

The two were spotted canoodling at her store, Butik, in Manhattan's West Village Wednesday night. And when she's not making out with Banks in shops, she's can be seen rocking out to his brooding tunes at Interpol's recent concerts.

But this isn't the first time she's gone this route. Christensen's musical boyfriend past -- which includes links to INXS' Michael Hutchence, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Coldplay's Guy Berryman -- is enough to give Winona Ryder a run for her money. Unlike Ryder, however, who has dated everyone from whiney pop artists (Counting Crows' Adam Duritz) to rebel rockers (Jack White), Christensen seems to have a specific type: Dark and moody.

See a photo of the new couple and more musical hookups after the jump.

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me

Crap. She's gonna kill another one.

May 17 2008 at 3:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BH

I was late, P Arthur Rimbaud.

April 22 2008 at 9:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
me

What's up with this woman? Does she not date guys her own age?
Who's next The Jonas Brothers?
Also, let's hope she doesn't kill Paul. After all, she lived with Michael Hutchence of INXS and he killed himself. Then she was reportedly on her way to see Heath Ledger the day he died.
And, where the hell is her kid while she does all this carousing????
Is her son just another accessory?
Does she tell him her boyfriend likes to write songs about weird butchers and menage a trois????

April 01 2008 at 5:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
HOTchick

I saw someone like him on *uniformedmatch*com It's a cool dating site for uniformers. What is he doing there?

April 01 2008 at 3:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
HOTchick

paul?

April 01 2008 at 2:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Amy Rosenberg

It is very hard to find men who want to date age appropriate women. Older men want to date teenagers and younger men want to date older women. I think women are more sensible than men as they do not date men younger than 10 or 15 years their junior. For some reason men think they can marry women young enough to be their granddaughters. This sort of age difference creates a real problem. Women are called cougers as if they were predators and men are not thought of as anything but normal. The whole thing invites abuse from both the younger women and the older men. Let us not forget that if slightly older women were not attractive, younger men would not persue them.

March 29 2008 at 6:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jayne

This is a "yawn" story. I am 12 years older than my husband. We have been married going on 14 years. How come no one says anything about older men-younger women (like Michael Douglas- Catherine Zeta-Jones or Frank Gifford- Kathie Lee Gifford to name 2???) EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, I SAY!! I'll get off my soap box now.. Oh, and we have a 13 year old son, too...

March 29 2008 at 2:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Questioningly

COUGAR - nice word for the female counterpart to "dirty old man".

March 29 2008 at 12:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rose

I have never heard the word "canoodling? in my entire 65 year old life but it sounds like you could be eating noodles in a canoe.

March 28 2008 at 11:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SASSY

oh well

March 28 2008 at 11:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply