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German football legend Lothar Matthaus took his 26-year-old girlfriend Theresa Sommer to the Ballon d'Or ceremony in Paris on Monday.
Matthaus, 64, was pictured on the red carpet with the model, who is 38 years his junior.
The pair had been repeatedly snapped together earlier this year after Matthaus split from his fifth wife Anastasia Klimko.
Matthaus was all smiles with his arm around his girlfriend, who was first seen with the World Cup winner back in April.
It seemingly confirms their relationship is romantic after both had been tight-lipped on its nature.
According to her LinkedIn page, Sommer studied economics and management at King's College in London before taking psychology at Durham University.
Lothar Matthaus was pictured with his girlfriend Theresa Sommer on the Ballon d'Or red carpet
The couple smiled for pictures as they arrived ahead of the ceremony in Paris on Monday
Back in April, she and Matthaus were seen attending a celebrity ski race in Ischgl in Austria.
They were also at the Allianz Arena in Munich for Germany's semi-final match against Portugal in the Nations League and Spain's final against the latter four days later.
Meanwhile, they were also filmed in a car together on their way to an event.
German newspaper Bild had made contact with Matthaus about his latest connection but he did not reply.
When they were at the skiing contest, they told A2 Television: 'We came for skiing, and the rest is a private matter.'
Matthaus' life off the pitch has seldom been quiet, with the former Germany captain going through five divorces.
Matthaus married his first wife, Silvia, in 1981. The couple had two children - Alisa born in 1986 and Viola born in 1988 - but divorced in 1992.
In the same year, Lolita Morena gave birth to his third child, Loris.
Matthaus, 64, had been pictured with Sommer, who is 38 years his junior, earlier this year
Matthaus and Morena, a Swiss model and TV presenter who represented her country at Miss World in 1982 and Miss Universe a year later, were married in 1994 but divorced in 1999 shortly before his retirement.
He found love again in the Serbian capital in the shape of 31-year-old fashion entrepreneur Marijana Colic.
She and Matthaus tied the knot in November 2003, but their marriage came to an end four years later after a lengthy divorce case in Salzburg - their last shared residence.
The pair initially separated after Matthaus began dating Ukrainian model Kristina Liliana Chudinova in 2007.
Colic, who still bears Matthaus' surname, filed for divorce soon afterward. During the year-long divorce case, the couple allegedly looked to reach an out-of-court settlement over the division of their assets.
The former Bayern Munich reportedly offered his ex-wife an €100,000 settlement and the ownership of their penthouse in Budapest.
While details of the divorce case were not made public, Blic reported Colic did not appeal the ruling, suggesting she was satisfied with the outcome.
By the time the divorce was officially ratified in January 2009, Matthaus had already married Chudinova. He was 47 at the time, 26 years older than her.
The pair met at the Oktoberfest in Munich in 2007 and exchanged vows in Las Vegas in December 2008.
The fact the pair tied the knot came as a surprise in itself, give they briefly went separate ways in February 2008 before reconciling their differences.
Sommer, who studied in London and Durham, had been seen with him multiple times
She had been spotted at a ski contest with Matthaus, where they said: 'We came for skiing, and the rest is a private matter'
Matthaus' fourth marriage hit the rocks early in 2010, when tabloids released pictures of his wife passionately embracing an unnamed Monaco businessman on his yacht during a holiday in Sardinia.
Matthaus married for a fifth and hitherto last time in 2014, when he tied the knot with Anastasia Klimko, from whom he had a son, Milan.
The couple divorced in 2021 but were spotted together at the Oktoberfest two years later, leading to speculations a rekindling of their flame may be on the cards before pictures with Sommer emerged.
Matthaus and Sommer were in attendance as Ousmane Dembele was crowned winner of the men's Ballon d'Or, ahead of Barcelona starlet Lamine Yamal.
