Older men juggling younger women: so cliché! Noor Alfallah is the exemplar of a more modern mash-up. Raven-haired, poreless, and often accessorized by her very beautiful baby, Alfallah has become one of the most discussed women in Hollywood. And it’s not because she was an executive producer on the film The Apprentice. (Which she was. Trump called it a “cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job.” It’s that good.)
Film credits aside, it’s Alfallah’s love life that fascinates. In 2017, when Alfallah was 22, she took up with Jagger, then 74. At the time, he was on a break from Melanie Hamrick, the older (but not by much) ballerina who is the mother of his eighth child. (The two have since re-united.)
After that fizzled, there were rumors that Alfallah was dating Nicolas Berggruen, the American-German investor and founder of the nonpartisan political think tank that bears his name. The two were seen together attending a Sting concert together last year. (How many 30-year-olds appreciate Sting? Look out, Trudie!) “She has never dated Nicolas Berggruen,” says her consultant and adviser, Zara Rahim. “They are simply friends.”
These romances might have been relinquished to Internet history had it not been for the intriguing entanglement with Pacino. According to Vogue Arabia, the unconventional couple bonded during the pandemic. “Al lives down the street from my house and we started spending every day together, playing chess and watching movies. It was like film school with Al Pacino,” she said. “I guess it just became something more.”
Now Alfallah is back in the friend zone, but she and Pacino share a son: baby Roman was born in June 2023. Alfallah has full custody, and Pacino pays $30,000 a month in child support.
The daughter of Alana Setlin and Falah N. Al-Falah, the Kuwaiti founder of investment firm ThirtyOneCapital Inc., Alfallah was the eldest of four children who grew up hopscotching between Los Angeles and Dubai. (Remi Alfallah, her sister and producing partner, once dated Michael Jackson’s son Prince.) After graduating from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, she earned a master’s degree in film production from U.C.L.A.
She has social graces in spades. After sitting next to Sleepless in Seattle producer Lynda Obst at a dinner party, she landed a job as a vice president of her production company. At some point, she befriended producer Brian Grazer and his wife, Veronica, and in 2021 signed a production deal with his company, Imagine Entertainment. She’s also a known quantity at Johnny Pigozzi’s house in Cap d’Antibes. (“The assertion that Noor got her job by sitting next to Lynda Obst at a dinner party is inaccurate,” says Rahim. “She was introduced to Lynda by [producer] Colleen Camp, after which she went through multiple interviews for the role.”)
Alfallah is leaning into her newfound notoriety. On her Instagram account, she has 80,000 followers (and counting). Her son co-starred in his mother’s Vogue editorial, which was timed to the Sundance debut of a feature film she produced called Little Death. And she is reportedly in the early stages of quelque chose with HBO’s great public intellectual, Bill Maher (68), although Alfallah insists they are just friends.
“I was born in the wrong generation,” she told Vogue Arabia. “I’ve been an old soul all my life. I have friends who are 70 years old; men and women who are just totally my friends who I love, who I’d rather be with than people my age.”
It could be evidence of a global man shortage, but the grumpy old men of the world owe Alfallah a debt of gratitude: aging has rarely been so attractive—or so in demand.
Ladies, lock up your grandfathers.
Ashley Baker is a Deputy Editor at AIR MAIL and a co-host of the Morning Meeting podcast
