In a statement, journalist and presenter Anderson Cooper announced the end of his nine-year relationship with Benjamin Maisani. “Benjamin and I separated as lovers some time ago,” he said, reiterating that the former couple are “still” “familiar to each other.” “We love each other very much. We continue to be best friends and share most of our lives together.” Far from suffering from the distant relationship, the foreign press is already speculating about a possible affair between the artist and Dallas radiologist Victor Lopez. The two were reportedly seen together in New Orleans in January, where Cooper was filming a 60 Minutes segment about Confederate monuments. More recently, however, the supposed couple were photographed together again in Manhattan.
