Jeremy Renner has lived with house-flipping business partner for years. The guy’s name is Kristoffer Winters and while there’s always been interest in and gossip around Renner and Winters’ relationship, the speculation really heated up over the past year, when Renner’s marriage fell apart and Winters – who lived with Renner and his wife, Three’s Company-style – became a witness and a character reference in the contentious divorce and custody battle. Winters was the one telling the court that Sonni Pacheco was a cokehead and that she just married Renner to get a green card. That’s how close Winters was and is to all of Renner’s personal life, okay? Winters is always cited as one of the main reasons “why” people believe Renner is gay. So this story is interesting…
Jeremy Renner is finding his personal relationships are ‘mission impossible’ as he cuts ties with his live-in best friend, Kristoffer Winters. Although his reps deny it, Renner has been shacking up with his interior designer buddy for more than a decade – even during his 11-month marriage to Sonni Pacheco – but now Jeremy has had enough of the wicked whispers that he and Kristoffer are more than just friends.
“He says the gay rumors don’t bother him, but they absolutely do and he doesn’t want it affecting his career,” says a friend. “He told Kris he had to go.”
Renner finally finished a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife over daughter Ava and he’s looking for a clean slate.
“Jeremy doesn’t want to give Sonni ammunition or have Ava grow up confused… Kris is hurt by his decision because he’s been defending him so profusely – he never thought Jeremy would turn his back on him.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
Gossip Cop says this story is wrong – they spoke to Renner’s rep who said the story is “completely untrue and ridiculous” and that Winters “never moved in to [Renner’s] new home. He had his own home.” If you’re wondering why Renner’s rep is so oddly specific about the different homes, here’s why: just a few weeks ago, Renner and Winters sold their Runyon Canyon home (which they renovated together and lived in together) and presumably Renner has a new home. The Runyon Canyon home was the one Renner shared with Winters AND Sonni Pacheco and Winters was always described as their “roommate.” My point? I think Star is on to something and Renner’s rep is just parsing. Renner has told Winters that they shouldn’t live together anymore, and that’s why they flipped the Runyon Canyon home (for a large profit) and that’s why Renner and Winters are now living in separate homes.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Pppfffft, everyone has gay rumours in that industry. Even Ben Affleck and Chris Evans have had them, and they’ve probably run through half the women in America between them. Anyone who lets that get to them is an idiot.
Not to mention that anyone who still thinks being called “gay” is an insult, but is over the age of twelve, is a double plus mega idiot.
While I agree “gay” is no insult, I’m not sure the Internet’s apparent obsession with everyone being supposedly bearding and closeted is particularly positive or helpful. I mean, what’s the message there? ‘Yep all of these guys are secretly gay….and look how fabulously rich, powerful, and successful they became by hiding it!” How is that helpful for young people?
To give some credit to Jeremy Renner, he has said that several times, that he thinks it’s gross that people assume he’d hide being gay like it was gross/wrong or something. He almost seems more offended by that than by the actual rumors.
Several years ago there was a group of actors that everyone assumed was gay, including Jeremy Renner, Luke Evans, and Matt Bomer. The internet eventually did find “proof” of Luke Evans and Matt Bomer being gay (well, Matt Bomer got hitched and started adopting kids, so it was obvious), but nothing about Jeremy has ever been found, besides this business partner, whom he’s never denied or been ashamed to admit he lives with. I just think if there was really something there, by now there would be more “evidence” than just the same rumors.
But who gets custody of the Cheez-its this time?
HOPEFULLY ME
I’ll fight you for them.
It’s odd — when I’ve seen him on Graham Norton he seemed charming and funny and he really seemed straight. And not hiding secrets.
Maybe my gaydar isn’t that good but I just didn’t feel it from him.
Gay. But seriously who cares? Own it and move along….
I s-u-p-p-o-s-e they can be life-long male friends who buck convention and live together platonically for over 11 years, through their 30s and 40s and still live together even after one of them gets married, living with his bestie while he and his wife go through a pregnancy and then still live together after your bestie is divorced…
But isn’t the simplest explanation always the most plausible?
Paul Rudd and Adam Scott lived together into their 30s, and there are no rumors about them. Looking around Hollywood, it’s not unusual to find people who roomed together way past the point regular citizens think is normal, because the actors weren’t making enough to afford their own place, especially in an expensive city like LA. I just find it so odd the people the public latches onto for these types of rumors. Like Jeremy Renner has a reputation for taking home waitresses at award shows/after parties/etc, yet the internet is convinced he’s gay. The gossip that circulates in the real world is that he likes really, like sketchily young women (which is born out by his ex who was like 19 when they met, and he was 40-ish). But everyone thinks he’s gay so those stories never gain traction online, even when he knocks one of them up and has a disastrous quickie marriage.
Yes but if true, shouldn’t that be when HE is ready??
I am very curious as to why people want famous people to admit their sexuality. To what end?? What do we get out of him admitting it if it’s true? Would it make us feel better to know that he is losing jobs he would quite like to get? Because of the audience, nobody would cast him in the Avengers if he was openly gay and for the record I don’t actually think he is but obviously I don’t know.
However, I do know people at work who are gay but haven’t told the whole team and I hope they only do that if/when they feel that they are ready.
Odd use of the word “admit,” Brit. As in crime.
Renner shouldn’t smile. He looks like a serious creeper when he does. He looks like a cruise ship steward who just spent the past twenty minutes sniffing the contents of the guests’ underwear drawers.
That’s all I have to contribute.
For a really long time he had a babyface and looked way younger than he is, but then it’s like he aged 20 years over night. The smoking and lack of moisturizer have finally caught up with him. Also, I am now picturing him in an Archer-like situation, in hot pants and a bad fake mustache while he skulks around a cruise ship.
IKR? He really needs to do something about his face now. I saw him in MI5 yesterday and he looked like his face had broken out in chicken pox at some point and healed badly. I couldn’t believe the lack of effective make-up!
When he was 35 he looked like 27 and now that he is 44 he looks like 50! This bloke really needs to stop smoking. Can’t imagine what his lungs must look like…!
hahahahaha!
@T.Fanty, who wrote: “Renner shouldn’t smile. He looks like a serious creeper when he does. He looks like a cruise ship steward who just spent the past twenty minutes sniffing the contents of the guests’ underwear drawers.”
🙂 That is the most apt and ‘awesome’ description of Jeremy Renner I’ve ever encountered. And I agree.
DYING OF LAUGHTER^^^^t.fanty has slayed me.
I actually spit up coffee on my computer. You win.
He bores me~I find absolutely zero things interesting about him.
He can’t be gay. He was reportedly hooking up with Elizabeth Olsen just a few months ago
Maybe that was the final straw for the roommate? It wasn’t the gold-digging, coke-snorting, green-card-scamming wife that finally made him throw in the towel. But hooking up with an Olsen sister, now that’s just too much for a guy to take…
Elizabeth doesn’t have a d— why would Renner hook up with her?
As always, everyone is ignoring the possibility that he could be-gasp!-bisexual.
@Anon33 …
Have you seen his roommate?
I have… no idea what that changes?
Yeah I don’t buy that.
That last photo is like a bad makeup ad, “Maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s Jeremy! “
I can’t stop laughing now.
That was funny! I saw that too. All I could think was…no more DIY, leave it to the professionals.
I absolutely believe the rumors about him. I can’t understand how people don’t see his situation for what it is.
Same.
He used to be a makeup artist…shouldn’t he be better with make up? Is it me or is there something seriously smarmy about this guy? He looks like such a creeper.
I did NOT know he used to be a makeup artist. That makes sense of the guy liner he seems to like so much. And I tend to agree with Mia up further, simplest explanation is the most likely.
Why is the media so gung-ho on outing people? In this day and age people should feel safe enough to come out when and if they feel like it. I personally don’t care either way but what really bugs me is the persistence from all these outlets regarding this issue
Unlikely, Renner moved out of that house at least 8 months ago, there was a picture on his twitter page at Christmas. Also Winters took Renner’s daughter up to visit him on set in Montreal only a couple of weeks ago, so they clearly haven’t fallen out. It is the blind sites covering their backsides, they stated clearly that a mass of stuff would come out during Renner’s divorce and it didn’t. Now they have to account for the fact that Renner is living alone, he really is sharing custody with his ex wife and, although $13K a month in child support seems a lot to people like us, his wife’s threats and accusations gained her absolutely nothing and she had to agree to the basic minimum in settlement.
PS It isn’t strange that Renner’s PR jumped on the story, from loads of interviews it is clear that loyalty to friends is a really big issue for him. He would be very insulted by the suggestion that he turned his back on his best friend of 20 years.
His bestie took his daughter to Montreal to see him?? Most people have nannies for that, not their single BFF, especially with a child that young. Also, these days you generally need some serious documentation to cross country borders with a child that is not your own.
That detail does not kill the rumors for me. LOL it just says their bestie & live-in situation is even more unusual.
Their situation is unusual, it just comes down to whether you believe two unrelated men can be as close as brothers. I think it makes sense that a small town guy who is the oldest of a large family would surround himself with a new family if he is stuck out on his own in LA. Based on what he has said in interviews Renner seems to have 10 of these ‘brothers and since his daughter was born he has moved most of his real family to LA. That whole arrangement is unusual.
They could still be a couple of course, but I don’t think they are because it would be a 20 year relationship and everything I have read about him suggests he would own it, especially in the 15 years before he became a successful actor. Also, there is a bit of chatter on twitter and it is always about women, outside of the closeness of his relationship with Winters the stuff on blind sites etc is pretty unconvincing.
As for the Canada thing, the Mother is Canadian so they may well have negotiated a split visit. I’m sure the kid does have a nanny, but I strongly suspect that family looks after her when Renner is busy and nobody is denying that Winters is family.
Nah Renner is still tight with his friend as said just above.
By the way, this is Renner’s motto when it comes to his house.
He never stays in a house for a long times. That is how his business work.
He buy a house, lives there with his partner eventually (the one who keep the house when he isn’t there, so less money used for a guard), renovated the house then sell much more than it was worth. He has been doing that for a long times. That is also why he doesn’t own his own house.
Who wanna bet he will selll this one in one to two year?
P.s.: I am not surprised by him living with his partner. I bet Leo does the same with his friends. (It is also funny we never talks about those millionaire/billionaire who are banking Leo’s life all around the world.). Sh*t are expansive in LA and many times, actors/actresses are roommate with their friends. More times than not they haven’t even buy those but are rentings it because few have enough cash to buy it directly. Then they pay a certain amount each month/year. Why do you think so many ended up with nothing?
Hollywood the biggest smoke and mirrors place.
yes, i never got this gay rumors. It´s not as if they try to hide that they are business partners and friends. If they really would try to hide a secret affair they would really hide to stop these rumors. It makes sence to live in these houses together. They buy, renovate and sell these houses for years now.
If i remember well Dicaprio lives with some of his single friends together f.e. Lukas Haas.
And we´re talking about big mansions and not tiny flats with one sofa. In Dicaprio´s case it´s more party lifestyle. He likes his posse and i have this feeling he and friends don´t want to be alone all the time. For the less rich friends this is the best way to live the party life for free
Non-story. They are still friends. If Jeremy doesn’t care if people think he’s gay, then why would he dump his best friend for them? The stories are just rumors that have gained zero traction over the years. Jeremy sold his martial home and they went their separate ways.
I have to say that he seems like a pretty up front kind of a guy and if he was gay and now in his forties I do believe he would come out. I think only athletes and soldiers as group deny when they are gay. And I think there is probably a big names in that athlete group who are hiding it.
Whatever, why does he care so much? If he does that people will get even more curious!
Not trying to stir up a hornets nest, I don’t care about Renner and his friend either way, but what kind of ‘best friend’ and roommate (only) is present at the birth of his friend’s child? Why would he be present in the delivery room when Renner’s daughter was born? (Scroll down to 5th paragraph):
http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2015/04/jeremy-renner-divorce-custody-agreement-estranged-wife/
And what kind of ‘buddy only’ moves from the house he shares with said friend and his young wife and child to one he will share with the friend’s mother? that’s a bit more than chummy. (see 6th paragraph):
http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2015/03/jeremy-renner-custody-battle-drug-neglect/
Again it is very unusual, but Renner says Winters is his brother and from photos and comments online it is clear that the rest of the family thinks the same way. The bit about being present for the birth is really odd in most people’s world, but I think Renner was present for the birth of his sister and possibly even his niece, so maybe in their family they see it differently. Renner was a Lamaze coach for his mum when he was only about 15 – seriously who does that? He was away filming during the last days of his wife’s pregnancy so maybe Winters was a reserve Lamaze coach in case he couldn’t get back in time or maybe they thought it was his only chance to see a baby being born and thought it would be a wonderful experience. For all we know his whole massive family was in the delivery room. I don’t know, but it was Renner who put this information into court documents that he knew could end up in the press, so once again it seems that he isn’t that bothered about what people think, unless it is the idea that he would turn his back on his friend. Renner has always been very consistent, I just think his life is just too unusual for the internet to cope with.
Because they are clearly more than BFFs. People are willfully blind. Renner has been successful for a long time; he doesn’t need a roommate. And the best way to deny something is to claim not to be offended by it WHILE denying it. This is a long term relationship. He had the sham marriage, likely to hide the “surrogate,” (ala Michael Jackson), but then she got greedy and wanted more money.
I am not willfully blind, there is just a huge amount of stuff out there that can be interpreted differently and a lot of misinformation. Taking all the information, not just what blind items chose to give, the best explanation would be that Renner is in a close and loving relationship with Kristoffer Winters and has been for the last 20 years, but at the same time he has had three long term relationships with women carried out almost entirely away from the cameras and in between has a tendency to flirt with and pick up women in bars. Now I am open minded and I accept this may well be the reality of the situation, but from my limited experience of swinging bisexuals I would suggest that this would be every bit as unusual as the option of a 20 year mega bromance. To me the most compelling evidence for the bromance option is that Renner is the bromance king when it comes to his costars, never flaunts his female relationships even though that is what beards are for, he has never taken on one of the standard industry supplied beards who know how to behave, he hasn’t tried to hide or minimize his relationship with Winters and he has denied he is in a sexual relationship with Winters which opens the subject up to legitimate media outlets and, if untrue, would be insulting to Winters and totally out of character for Renner. If he was gay I am pretty certain he would simply never have spoken about it, kept a separate apartment for Kristoffer to live in officially and taken the standard professional beard route which would have got him through until he was too old for action films. If they had desperately wanted kids they could have hidden them among Renner’s many nearby relatives or arranged a surrogate with whom he didn’t have to share custody and pay child support.
IMO…Bearding is just plain wrong and hiding a child among nearby relatives is ABSURD, I mean really, who does that? … This does looks like an ‘arrangement’ alright. The thing is, you can’t make a business deal for a baby just to save FACE!! I know it happens but Mother Nature does not work that way at all. Having a baby and raising the child is an emotional lifetime experience for both parents. If you want a family, then its family first and let the chips fall where they may. This whole situation is a disaster they will have to deal with forever. I hope these people get help, they need some serious therapy for that precious baby’s sake. Including the room MATE. Huge fail : (
Fame ruined this guy’s potential.
They’re house flippers. Is it news when they sell a house?