Few celebrities have had a more public dating history than Drake. For more than fifteen years, the Toronto-born rapper, born Aubrey Drake Graham, has been linked to a roster of singers, athletes, models, and actors that reads like a guest list for a Met Gala afterparty. Some of those connections are confirmed by Drake himself, often in song. Many more are reported and stitched together from paparazzi shots, restaurant sightings, and Instagram timing. A smaller number are pure rumor that he has either denied or never addressed. As of 2026, Drake has no publicly confirmed romantic partner, but his name continues to appear in tabloid speculation almost monthly. This is the most complete look at every woman Drake has been linked to, sorted by what we actually know.
The list runs from Rihanna to Jennifer Lopez to Serena Williams, with stops in between for Sophie Brussaux, the French artist who is the mother of his son Adonis. It also includes connections he has publicly addressed in song and others he has firmly denied.
Drake’s Relationship Timeline
| Drake’s Relationship Timeline | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Years | Partner | Status | Type |
| 2024 - present | No publicly confirmed partner | Single (publicly) | Confirmed |
| 2021 - 2022 | Johanna Leia | Linked / dated briefly | Reported |
| 2018 | Tyra Banks | Linked | Reported |
| 2017 | Sophie Brussaux | Co-parent (son Adonis) | Confirmed |
| 2017 | Bella Hadid | Linked | Reported |
| 2016 | Jennifer Lopez | Dated briefly | Reported |
| 2016 | Hailey Baldwin | Linked | Rumored |
| 2011 - 2015 | Serena Williams | On-and-off | Reported |
| 2009 - 2016 | Rihanna | On-and-off, longest rumored connection | Reported |
| Various years | Bria Myles | Long-term off-and-on muse | Reported |
| Date disputed | SZA | Brief connection, both have addressed it publicly | Reported |
Who Is Drake Dating Now?
As of 2026, Drake has no publicly confirmed partner. He has not introduced anyone as a girlfriend, walked any red carpet with a date, or made the kind of soft-launch Instagram post that signals a new relationship. Online speculation has tied him to a rotating cast of women in 2024 and 2025, including music industry peers and models photographed near him at parties, but none of those reports have been confirmed by Drake or any of the women involved.
What he has been public about is fatherhood. Since unveiling his son Adonis on the 2018 album “Scorpion,” Drake has shared more about his life as a father than about any romantic partner. In recent interviews and on social media, he has positioned co-parenting and Adonis’s upbringing as his most consistent personal storyline.
Sophie Brussaux and Son Adonis: The Confirmed Co-Parent
| Duration | Brief in 2017 |
| Status | Co-parents |
| How They Met | Reportedly in Amsterdam, 2017 |
| Son | Adonis Mahbed Graham, born October 11, 2017 |
Sophie Brussaux is a French painter and former adult film actress who is the mother of Drake’s only publicly known child. The two were briefly linked in early 2017 after photos surfaced of them together in Amsterdam. Drake initially distanced himself from the relationship and the pregnancy. The story broke wide open in May 2018, when Pusha T released “The Story of Adidon,” a diss track that publicly outed Drake as the father of a son with Brussaux.
Weeks later, Drake addressed his son directly on the album “Scorpion.” On the song “Emotionless,” he rapped: “I wasn’t hiding my kid from the world, I was hiding the world from my kid.” Adonis Mahbed Graham was born on October 11, 2017. In the years since, Drake has shared photos and videos of Adonis on Instagram, and Adonis has appeared on song intros and album artwork. Brussaux and Drake have never publicly described themselves as a couple. Their relationship, as it exists in the public record, is a co-parenting one.
Rihanna: The Longest-Running Rumored Connection (2009 - 2016)
| Duration | Roughly seven years, on and off |
| Status | Linked / collaborated, never officially confirmed as a relationship |
| How They Met | Through the music industry, early 2000s |
| Ended Because | Not publicly disclosed; both moved on to other relationships |
No connection in Drake’s history has been speculated about more than his on-and-off chemistry with Rihanna. The two were first linked in 2009 after a series of date sightings in New York. Over the following years, they collaborated on some of the biggest songs of the streaming era: “What’s My Name?” in 2010, “Take Care” in 2011, and “Work” in 2016. The “Work” era produced two music videos directed by Director X and a kiss-adjacent set of public appearances that fueled tabloid coverage for months.
The peak public moment came at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, where Drake presented Rihanna with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. In his speech, he said: “She’s someone I’ve been in love with since I was 22 years old.” Within weeks the connection had cooled, and by the end of 2016 both had moved on. Rihanna later told Vogue in 2018 that she and Drake were “not friends” anymore. The two have since reconciled cordially in public, but their on-and-off chapter remains one of the most-discussed celebrity timelines of the 2010s.
Jennifer Lopez (December 2016)
| Duration | Approximately one month |
| Status | Dated briefly |
| How They Met | Las Vegas, during her residency |
| Ended Because | Not publicly disclosed |
For a few weeks in December 2016, Drake and Jennifer Lopez were the most-photographed pairing in pop. The two were seen together at her Las Vegas residency, posted matching cuddle-pose Instagrams in late December, and attended events together. Lopez had recently split from Casper Smart, and Drake had just come out of the Rihanna-era VMAs cycle. By February 2017 the photos had stopped, and Lopez moved on to her relationship with Alex Rodriguez. Drake later name-dropped the chapter on the 2018 song “Diplomatic Immunity”: “I had a Jenny from the Block.” Neither side has shared much more.
Serena Williams (2011 - 2015)
| Duration | On and off for four years |
| Status | Reported relationship, never formally confirmed |
| How They Met | Through mutual industry friends |
| Ended Because | Not publicly disclosed; she married Alexis Ohanian in 2017 |
Drake was a regular fixture in Serena Williams’s player’s box at Grand Slam tournaments between 2011 and 2015, including Wimbledon and the US Open. The two were spotted on dinner dates in Cincinnati, Paris, and Toronto during the same window. Neither ever confirmed the relationship in clear terms, though both spoke warmly of each other in interviews. Williams went on to marry Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in November 2017. Drake congratulated the couple publicly.
Other Reported Relationships
Bella Hadid (2017): Drake and Bella Hadid were reported to have dated briefly in late 2017, with TMZ and Us Weekly citing dinner sightings in Los Angeles around her 21st birthday. Hadid never confirmed the relationship and soon reunited with The Weeknd.
Tyra Banks (2018): Drake and the supermodel were reported by People to have been on a “dinner date” at Avra in Beverly Hills in 2018. Neither described the meeting as romantic in any follow-up interviews.
Hailey Baldwin (2016): Briefly linked in early 2016 after photos circulated of the two at a Toronto Raptors game. Baldwin called the reports “completely false” in a Marie Claire interview the same year.
Johanna Leia (2021): Drake and the model and reality figure (mother of basketball player Amari Bailey) were photographed having a private dinner on the field at Dodger Stadium in July 2021. The two were also seen at his son’s basketball games. They were never confirmed as official.
