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Just a little over a month after Lady Gaga revealed her engagement during the Paris Olympics, the actress gave the first clear look of her ring to photographers. Gaga and her fiancé, Michael Polansky, were photographed arriving in Venice yesterday ahead of the September 4 premiere of her film Joker: Folie à Deux during the Venice Film Festival. They matched in black, and Gaga flashed her giant oval diamond ring as they walked past paparazzi.
The couple was also photographed kissing:
News of Gaga and Polansky dating first broke in February 2020. Engagement rumors began in April 2024, although the couple remained mum. On July 28, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal posted a TikTok of himself meeting Gaga at the Paris Olympics. Polansky was with her, and she introduced him to Attal as her “fiancé.”
The couple has kept most of their relationship private. A source told Entertainment Tonight on July 29 that they are “happy,” and Polansky proposed months before Gaga shared the news.
“Lady Gaga and Michael have been engaged since the spring,” the source said. “They’re both extremely happy and excited about this moment in their relationship.”
The focus for Gaga publicly will be the Joker sequel these next few months and the unconventional love story it tells. The star plays Harley Quinn in the musical. In late July, she spoke to Variety about what to expect from director Todd Phillips’s movie.
“Todd took a very big swing with this whole concept and with the script, giving the sequel to Joker this audacity and complexity,” she said. “There’s music, there’s dance, it’s a drama, it’s also a courtroom drama, it’s a comedy, it’s happy, it’s sad. It’s a testament to [Todd] as a director, that he would rather be creative than just tell a traditional story of love.”
Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City.