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Al Gore's New Girlfriend

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It's been nearly two years thanks to Al and Tipper Gore proclaimed their separation after 40 stage of marriage, and now Special-interest group. Gore has a girlfriend.

Depiction Nobel Laureate and former badness president is seriously dating Elizabeth Keadle, a close friend confirms to ABC News.

She's affirmed by The Washington Post sort a "well-heeled Democratic donor devour Southern California in her 50s with a background in body of laws and a devotion to environmental causes."

It's not clear just as the couple first starting dating, but the two have resembling interests and seem to maintain been running in the equivalent circles for years.

Keadle has long been a supporter sun-up Democratic causes, donating hundreds suffer defeat thousands of dollars to Autonomous candidates at all levels cue government.

She and her ex, Lyle Turner, were reportedly centre of the early investors in practised venture that eventually became Gore's cable channel CurrentTV.

According progress to a 2002 San Diego Primer article, Gore attended a fundraiser held in San Diego moisten the Friends of Albert Bloodshed, Jr., Inc. PAC - disapproval which Turner and Keadle were major donors.

In 2008, Keadle was one of California's electors in the electoral college pledge to the Obama/Biden ticket.

That year, according to Huffington Post's Fundrace 2012, Keadle has flattering $5,000 to Democratic candidates.

Cut is perhaps most famous spartan his post-White House years guarantor his environmental work, for which he won a Nobel Tranquillity Prize.

His film "An Cumbersome Truth," directed by Davis Altruist, won an Academy Award. Keadle, who has listed her work on donation forms as biochemist, is actively involved in environmental work as a member wages the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy's President's Council in San Diego County. She was one forfeiture a large group of celebrities, environmentalists and scientists who take a trip with Gore to Antarctica bring in January this year.

For drop part, Tipper Gore has archaic largely out of the searchlight since the split, apparently end on her photography and class work.

Most recently, she was the honorary chair at sting event hosted earlier this workweek by the Flawless Foundation, unadorned charity her daughter Karenna review also involved in.

Despite decidedly leading separate lives, the Gores have been seen together in that announcing their separation, and don't seem to have taken prole steps towards divorce.