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Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff
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When were Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff engaged?

The two were once a hipster power couple.

Jack Antonoff, musician and producer behind some of your favorite female musician’s best albums (yes, including Lana Del Rey and Miss Taylor Swift), recently got married to Maragret Qualley in a private ceremony, albeit one with more celebrities than many red carpet events. Qualley isn’t the only actress Antonoff has been linked with; Antonoff was in a relationship with Girls star Lena Dunham for much of the 2010s.

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While both Dunham and Antonoff have moved on after their split, there was a time when they were an artistic hipster power couple (just look at that featured image of them in 2017). Antonoff, a celebrated musician and producer best known for being a part of Fun. and his solo-project Bleachers and Dunham, a writer, director, and actor, seemed like they were End Game.

The two were surprisingly never engaged (though Dunham admitted to Cosmopolitan UK she had a short-lived engagement with a mystery man a few months after the two split) but dated from 2012 until their breakup in Dec. 2017. According to the official breakup announcement from E! News, the two met on a blind date before quickly becoming serious. The closest the two got to engagement was when Dunham shared a time about a month before their split, when she thought she overheard Antonoff plotting his proposal, only to realize he was “talking s***” about her.

Image via X/@lenadunham

After their breakup, Antonoff remained relatively quiet about the subject. His love life remained a topic of speculation, as fans wondered if he was with frequent collaborator Lorde (if you know about the powerpoint, you’re a real one) Dunham penned several essays about their relationship and eventual breakup before marrying musician Luis Felber in 2021.

Despite initial awkwardness, the two remain friendly after their breakup.


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Staci White
Since the moment she listened to her first Britney Spears CD at the tender age of six, Staci has been a lover of all things pop culture. She graduated from UCLA with a Bachelors in Linguistics and somehow turned her love of music, movies, and media into a career as an entertainment writer. When she’s not writing for WGTC, she’s busy fulfilling her own pop star dreams as a singer/songwriter or hanging out at her local coffee shops.