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Rebecca Gayheart and her influential beau, Peter Morton, discreetly ended their relationship last year, sources revealed to Page Six. Their separation occurred before the passing of Gayheart’s husband, Eric Dane.
The actress and Peter Morton, the mastermind behind the Hard Rock Cafe, sparked romance rumors in 2023 when they were seen together in Los Angeles on a double date with supermodel Claudia Schiffer and her husband, director Matthew Vaughn.
Insiders disclosed that Gayheart and Morton called it quits almost a year ago, in April 2025.
Their last public appearance together was in December, when they were seen holding hands and sharing a kiss as they left the E-Baldi restaurant in Beverly Hills, California.
However, a source clarified that the encounter was not a date. They reportedly bumped into each other and took the opportunity to catch up.
“They are still friendly,” says a source.
Morton’s father is Arnie Morton, founder of the Morton’s Steakhouse chain.
He and his partners sold their stake in the Hard Rock Cafe restaurants to the Rank Organization for $410 million in 1996. In May 2006, he and his partners sold the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas to the Morgans Hotel Group Company for $770 million.
He was previously married to Paulene Stone and Tarlton Pauley. He also had a relationship with Linda Evangalista.
Success runs in Morton’s family. His late son Harry was an owner in the Viper Room and founded Pink Taco. Son Matthew founded the popular Cha Cha Matcha and daughter Grace works as vice president of production and development for Taylor Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch Productions.
Gayheart was married to Eric Dane from 2004 until his death from ALS in Febraury.
The pair were separated and Gayheart had filed for divorce in 2018. She dismissed the filing last March following Dane’s diagnosis.
“Eric knows that I am always going to want the best for him,” she wrote in The Cut in December. “That I’m going to do my best to do right by him. And I know he would do the same for me. So whatever I can do or however I can show up to make this journey better for him or easier for him, I want to do that.”
“We wanna take advantage of the time that he has right now,” Gayheart wrote. “He made it very clear that he wants to spend time with his family as much as possible, and I am committed to facilitating that.”