Third time might be the charm for Reese Witherspoon. And she’s just gone official with it!
The Legally Blonde actress has finally found love again, finally making her red carpet debut with Oliver Haarmann, bringing him along for Prime Video’s world premiere for Elle in New York City.
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Read on for everything we know about the financier and his relationship with the Hello Sunshine founder, which comes just over two years after she announced her divorce from talent agent Jim Toth.
Oliver in May 2025 (Getty)
What he does for work
Oliver, who is about 58 years old, is a German private equity financier, and a founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners. He graduated from Brown University in 1990, and later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996.
He founded Searchlight Capital in 2010 along with Eric Zinterhofer and Erol Uzumeri, which per their website, “aspires to create value through the application of our flexible investment mandate and deep sector knowledge.”
His ex-wife is also financier (Getty)
The website also says of Oliver: “He serves on the Investment Committee, Operating Committee and Valuation Committee, and is jointly responsible for overseeing the Firm’s activities with the two other Founding Partners. He serves on a number of current and prior portfolio company boards of Searchlight including EOLO, Global Risk Partners (‘GRP’), Ocean Outdoor, Opus, among others. Prior to co-founding Searchlight, Mr. Haarmann was a senior partner at KKR & Co L.P. (‘KKR’) in London. He helped build KKR’s European business from a start-up into one of Europe’s leading private equity firms.”
Oliver is also a minority owner of the New York Islanders, the state’s ice hockey team, as of 2023.
Mala is now in a relationship with Talking Heads frontman David Byrne (FilmMagic)
His personal life
Per a 2017 W Magazine profile on his ex-wife, Oliver was previously married to fellow financier Mala Gaonkar, who was born in the US but largely raised in Bengaluru, India, a city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
Like her ex-husband, she also earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996 (she also went to the school for undergrad) and they share two sons.
She started her career at Boston Consulting Group, before joining Lone Pine Capital as a founding partner. She also founded the Surgo Foundation, of which Oliver is a trustee, alongside Sema Sgaier, who previously worked for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
Reese’s three children (Instagram)
When they started dating
Reese keeps her love life very private, and has not dated publicly since her divorce.
However, it has officially been about two years since her and Oliver sparked romance rumors, when they were seen enjoying dinner together at the West Village classic L’Artusi back in 2024.