Carsten Maschmeyer has been photographed holding hands with a woman who works as a model, according to BILD. The images, which the German outlet says it has examined, show the 67-year-old entrepreneur and investor in close company with the woman. BILD has not publicly named her in the portion of its reporting available.
The photos follow the announcement at the end of August that Maschmeyer and actress Veronica Ferres, 61, were ending their marriage. According to BILD, the pair had been together for more than 15 years and were married for close to twelve of them. Maschmeyer is known to German television audiences as one of the investors on the business show "Höhle der Löwen."
BILD states that it knows further details about the woman and about where the two were seen together, but it has placed that material behind its BILDplus paywall. The outlet has not disclosed her identity, the location of the photographs or when they were taken in the free portion of its report.
Neither Maschmeyer nor Ferres has commented publicly on the pictures in the reporting available. The images alone do not establish that Maschmeyer is in a new relationship, and BILD's own headline poses the question rather than confirming it.
What to watch next: whether Maschmeyer or his representatives respond to the photos, and whether BILD's fuller account names the woman or dates the sighting.