Cooper and Abedin’s romance first made headlines in July 2022. Abedin is a political staffer who was the vice chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. She currently serves as Clinton’s chief of staff. She was famously married to disgraced politician Anthony Weiner until 2016, with whom she has a son, Jordan Zain Weiner, who was born in 2011.
In October 2022, Abedin said she was open to dating again in an interview with WSJ. magazine. “I put dating in the category of one of the things I did not allow myself to be open to for many years, particularly when I was living in New York in the early 2000s, when Hillary was in the Senate and it was a very glamorous time in New York,” she explained. “I was invited to so many dinner parties and there’d be all these women I found to be much smarter, much more beautiful, much more everything. Here I was, this serious little political aide in a suit.”
But now, she said, “I’m open to all kinds of saying yes!” — including to dating. But she never addressed if she was in a relationship with Cooper, and the actor has also never confirmed the romance. In June 2023, Abedin attended an official state dinner at the White House alone.