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Gladiator Star Finds True Love In Wake Of 9/11 Tragedy For Gladiator baddie Joaquin Phoenix, love grew from the ashes of the World Trade Center. The 27-year-old and his galpal of a few weeks, Norwegian model Inger Lise Ebeltoft, 25, decided to make their relationship a little more permanent in the wake of the terror attack. She moved into his New York apartment. "We met at a party in the summer," Inger tells one of my Scandinavian spies. "Then Joaquin took me for a walk in Central Park. A day later, I called him and we met in a coffee shop. Since then, it has been him and me." Shortly after 9-11, leggy blonde Inger abandoned her apartment near the WTC and moved in with Phoenix. She said of the actor, whose icy-cold Emperor Commodus in Gladiator earned him an Oscar nomination: "He is an amazing person. I don't know how things would have been if I did not have him to lean on in these chaotic moments." |