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Who Is Goga Ashkenazi?

Gerard Butler on Jan. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok) AP Photo/Danny Moloshok

NEW YORK (CBS) Actor Gerard Butler, the 40-year-old "300" hunk, is apparently smitten with a Kazakhstani billionaire beauty.

Her name is Gaukhar "Goga" Ashkenazi and she reportedly is the glittery and well-moneyed object of the Scottish film star's off-screen affections.

The possible new power couple met at the Cannes Film Festival in May. And he was spotted popping out of the billionaire's lavish West London mansion last weekend, according to the New York Post.

Even with all the glitz and pomp these two throw around, reports speculate they met the old-fashioned way. "Gerard was spotted chatting up Goga at a party in Cannes and they exchanged numbers," a source tells the Post.

Goga is an Oxford University graduate with a gold-mining and construction company. Plus, she's a close friend of Prince Andrew, Duke of York.

Yes, just friends.

The Post also reports that she once dated Italian Formula 1 boss Flavio Briatore and recently ended a relationship with Kazakh oil billionaire Timur Kulibayev, a man still married to Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev's daughter, Dinara.

Neither lover's reps offered comment to confirm their romance, but one thing's for sure, their pairing adds up to quite a pretty penny.

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