After a brief romance with actress Scarlett Johansson, Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn is now reportedly dating a brunette identified as Stacey Koplin.
The 50-year-old actor, who recently split from Johansson after a three-month romance, is currently enjoying a romantic break at exclusive Beverly Hills hotel Peninsula with Koplin.
"She came up to the roof with wet hair, he looked totally frazzled. They ate and had coffee, but they were talking about something intense. They were deep in conversation the entire time," a source said.
A buffed up Penn was also spotted on the beach in Malibu on Monday, Us magazine reported.
The actor went shirtless in the sand with Koplin, who kept somewhat covered up in a thin green mini-dress. They shared a walk on the beach and hit a jetski during the beach outing.
Penn reportedly broke up with Johansson because he didn't want anything "serious" since his 2010 divorce from Robin Wright.
After pursuing Penn, 26-year-old Johansson, whose own divorce from Ryan Reynolds was finalized in late December, briefly moved into Penn's Malibu home.
Actress Scarlett Johansson is seen as a young liberal woman and she admits being comfortable with her image.
"I feel comfortable as a young woman - a young, modern, liberal person. I feel comfortable with my sexuality."
The 26-year-old actress recently ended her relationship with Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn, which began just months after she filed for divorce from her husband for two years, Ryan Reynolds.
"However, I am protective of my private life. I don't think that my life is public just because I'm in the public eye. I am an actor. But you can't take things too seriously," she said.
The pair sparked speculation their romance was in trouble when the actress failed to attend the Cannes film festival in France last month with Sean for his film Tree of Life.
Instead, she was said to be concentrating on her new film The Avengers in New Mexico, where she is reprising her role of Black Widow from Iron Man 2.
Scarlett, 26, and Sean, 50, started dating in February, shortly after the Lost in Translation star split from husband Ryan Reynolds, and in April sources suggested they were already moving in together.
An insider said the actress had "essentially moved in over the last few weeks," to the 'Milk' actor's $3.8 million Malibu home.Scarlett initially struck up a friendship with Sean - who divorced wife Robin Wright in 2010 after 13 years together - when she was considering flying to Haiti to help people affected by the two earthquakes in January 2010.
Although Scarlett wasn't able to make the trip, the couple started dating and made their first public appearance together at the wedding of Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth in March.They were then spotted at a number of public engagements together, including a White House Correspondents' Dinner party in Washington D.C. in April.
Actor Brad Pitt's new film "The Tree Of Life" with veteran star Sean Penn failed to impress the critics at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival.
Pitt defended Malick's decision to stay away, insisting it is not up to the director to "sell" the movie.
He said, "I don't know why it's accepted that people who make things in our business are then expected to sell them, and I don't think that computes with him. He wants to focus on the making of it, not the real estate, selling the real estate. It is an odd thing for an artist to start something and then be salesman."





