{"id":185600,"date":"2026-04-04T17:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185600\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:59:26","slug":"chris-rock-spotted-kissing-dj-simone-henault-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185600\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Rock Spotted Kissing DJ Simone Henault in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Rock<\/a> appears to have entered a new chapter in his personal life. <\/p>\n

According to People<\/a>, the comedian and actor was recently seen in public with Simone Henault, a creative producer and DJ, during two separate outings that quickly drew attention.<\/p>\n

In March, the pair were photographed leaving Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California, before being spotted again later in the month in New York City, where they were seen holding hands and kissing in SoHo.<\/p>\n

The sightings mark the first time Rock has been publicly linked to anyone since he described himself as single in his 2023 Netflix special. <\/p>\n

Henault attended St. Edward\u2019s University in Austin, Texas, where she earned a degree in public relations, advertising, and applied communication. She later built a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that includes work at Cornerstone Agency, The Fader, and 19th & Park before joining Google in 2021. <\/p>\n

At Google, she worked as a creative producer on the Waze team until 2025. Earlier this year, Henault announced that she was beginning a new phase in her career focused on connecting artists, brands, and cultural communities through music, fashion, wellness, and live experiences.<\/p>\n

In a LinkedIn post shared in early 2026,<\/a> Henault described her new direction by writing, \u201cAfter years of creating within incredible teams, I\u2019m now focused on connecting brands, artists, and global communities through culture, experience, and vision.\u201d <\/p>\n

Outside her corporate work, Henault has established herself as a DJ and content strategist, performing at venues and events associated with Soho House and Shoreditch House. She also curates a series of Spotify playlists under the name \u201cMonafide Soul Series.\u201d<\/p>\n

The public attention surrounding Rock\u2019s latest rumored relationship comes more than a decade after his split from ex-wife Malaak Compton-Rock. Rock and Compton-Rock married in 1996 and divorced in 2016 after nearly 20 years together. The comedian later dated actress and filmmaker Lake Bell, though by 2023, he publicly identified as single.<\/p>\n

Neither Rock nor Henault has publicly commented on the nature of their relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Rock appears to have entered a new chapter in his personal life. According to People, the comedian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-185600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}