Keep going strong! James Franco, 44, and his longtime girlfriend Isabel Pakzad, 26, enjoy a low-key sushi dinner on a rare outing to Los Angeles
James Franco was spotted out on a rare outing with his girlfriend Isabel Pakzad in Los Angeles on Friday night.
The couple, who have been romantically linked since 2017, enjoyed a low-key dinner at Sushi Park in West Hollywood.
Franco, 44, and Pakzad, 26, were last photographed together in November while on vacation in Athens, Greece.
For the date on Friday, Pakzad took herself and the Disaster Artist actor to the restaurant in her black BMW.
Meanwhile, Franco slid into the front passenger seat and let his lady take the wheel.
Pakzad kept it cozy in a white sweatshirt with colorful designs and a black skirt over opaque black leggings.
Spotted: James Franco was spotted out on a rare outing with his girlfriend Isabel Pakzad in Los Angeles on Friday night.
The New Jersey native completed her ensemble with a pair of black combat boots with edgy platform soles.
Pakzad let her natural beauty shine through by wearing her brown hair up and out of her face and accessorizing it with sparkling jewelry.
She carried an elegant bag over her right shoulder to walk from her parked car to the restaurant’s entrance.
Franco was the very picture of casual-cool in black denim and a matching crew-neck sweatshirt and white sneakers.
He hid his short brown hair under a bright orange baseball cap and sported a scruffy beard and mustache.
After enjoying their dinner for two, the couple left the establishment and chatted with each other.
The Palo, Alto, California native has kept a relatively low profile in recent years since five women came forward and accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior, four of whom were her acting students, in an article published by The Los Angeles Times in January 2018.
One of the ladies under his direction as an acting student told GMA that Franco “abuses his power by exploiting the non-famous women he works with under the pretext of giving them opportunities.”
Franco reached conciliation agreements with at least two of the accusers to settle their sexual misconduct lawsuits, he reported. People.
In Los Angeles court records obtained by the outlet, he allegedly agreed to pay $2,235,000 in the settlement.
During an episode of SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle Podcast In 2021, The Deuce star opened up about his past sex addiction and how it affected his relationships.
Dinner date: The couple, who have been romantically linked since 2017, enjoyed a low-key dinner at Sushi Park in West Hollywood
Behind the wheel: For Friday’s date, Pakzad took herself and the Disaster Artist actor to the restaurant in her black BMW
‘I had girlfriends. She could never be faithful to anyone. I fooled everyone before Isabel,” the Spring Breakers star confessed, before adding, “she was completely blind to power dynamics or something… she didn’t want to hurt people.”
‘When I was a teenager, I was addicted to alcohol. I got into a lot of trouble, I was sober when I was 17 years old,” Franco explained. “Once I couldn’t use alcohol to fill that hole, I was like, ‘Oh, hit, mind you, this is great.’ I got addicted to validation or success or whatever.
He also noted that he was “completely blind to power dynamics or anything like that” and never intended to “hurt people” in the process.
After a career hiatus, Franco has two appearances in the upcoming films Kill the Cza and Alina: La Hija Rebelde, all of which are now in post-production.