Sinitta’s famous soul mate

The British pop star Sinitta was just 14 when she met Simon Cowell, says Rebecca Hardy in the London Daily Mail. Cowell had just started his own record label, and she was the first singer he signed. Later, they became lovers and remained so for 20 years. “He’s a very primary person in my life,” Sinitta says. “He’s just so many things for me.” But in 2002, Sinitta married another man and adopted two children. And now that she’s going through a painful divorce, she’s turning to the famously sour American Idol judge for moral support; they just spent two weeks together on a yacht in the Mediterranean. “I’m his escape, I would say, and he’s mine,” she said. “We find it very easy to be together. I didn’t have a brother or a father when I was young, so he’s the male figure I’ve had in my life the longest. I like the familiarity, the security, and I really trust him.” Indeed, if Cowell weren’t determined to stay a bachelor, she’d probably get back together with him. “I’ve even said to him, ‘Why don’t we?’ But I think our lives have become too complicated now. I have the children, and he has this crazy career. I love him with all my heart. But he wants to be a single guy.”

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