They were both on the rebound, had a 25 year age gap, and were only together for about five minutes, but for some reason news of Sean and Scarlett’s split hit the blogosphere like a ton of bricks when PEOPLE Magazine broke the news Thursday evening that the unlikely couple had parted ways after four months of dating.
Penn — who won a Best Actor Oscar for his 2008 biopic Milk — first connected with Scarlett when the couple met on a humanitarian mission to Haiti earlier this year. Rumors of a hookup went into overdrive when the couple were photographed getting frisky over lunch at a Los Angeles restaurant. The pair attended a White House Correspondents’ Dinner party in Washington in April, shortly after we first heard that they were living together.