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Who is Ben Gorham, who’s been hanging out with Kendall Jenner? Meet the ex-basketballer and founder of luxury fragrance brand Byredo

STORYIshani Sarkar
Ben Gorham and Kendall Jenner have been seen in Paris and California together. Photos: @bengorham, @kendalljenner/Instagram
Ben Gorham and Kendall Jenner have been seen in Paris and California together. Photos: @bengorham, @kendalljenner/Instagram
Fame and celebrity

Gorham’s a former basketball player who built the cult fragrance brand Byredo that branched out into make-up and jewellery – he’s also supposedly married

Kendall Jenner may be ending 2025 with a possible new beau. Following her split from rapper Bad Bunny in September 2024, she has been courting romance rumours with fragrance tycoon Ben Gorham, 18 years her senior. The pair stepped out in Los Angeles recently for a shopping spree at La Maison Francaise Antiques, followed by a coffee run at Architecture Bookstore Café, reports Page Six.
This isn’t the first time the two have been linked. In September, Jenner and Gorham were seen in West Hollywood looking at books. On another occasion that same month, they grabbed lunch at Summerland’s Field + Fort cafe. The following month, they reportedly had a Parisian outing, per the Daily Mail.
Kendall Jenner at the 20th Anniversary of L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in December. Photo: Getty Images
Kendall Jenner at the 20th Anniversary of L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in December. Photo: Getty Images
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It is unclear whether romance is blooming between the model and the Byredo founder, or if a collaboration is in the works. He supposedly has a wife, Natasa, with whom he shares two daughters, Inez and Anouk, according to The Cut.

Here’s everything to know about Ben Gorham.

What’s his background?

Ben Gorham in 2018. Photo: @bengorham/Instagram
Ben Gorham in 2018. Photo: @bengorham/Instagram

Ben Gorham was born to an Indian mother and a half-Scottish, half-French Canadian father in Sweden, per beauty website Into the Gloss. He has a sister, per The Guardian, and they were brought up by his mother. “She grew up in a garage in Mumbai with five brothers and was extremely poor,” Gorham said of his mother.

The family moved to Toronto when he was 11, but he completed high school in New York and moved back to Toronto to study business at Ryerson University. He eventually switched to studying politics and interior design before getting a fine arts degree from Stockholm Art School.

He’s a former basketball player

Ben Gorham of Byredo, founded in 2006. Photo: Handout
Ben Gorham of Byredo, founded in 2006. Photo: Handout
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