'He's always been honest about taking a pretty wild ride through life in his music, but Jack's in a really good place right now. She seems excited to be hanging with him. 'I've seen Lana at parties in LA and she's always really been nice and cool. 'It's no big shock to the mutual friend group,' the source told. In footage posted by Donoghue, Lana laughs as they enter a disco room for Jack to blow out his candles onstage. Instagram Live video footage posted by her brother Charlie Grant includes Lana calling out to Jack, who is standing in front of her, warning him, 'he's live' before Jack turned and covered the camera lens with his hand.Ī picture of the lovebirds posted on Instagram showed a relaxed Lana smiling with her arm around Jack while he bizarrely held up a framed and apparently photoshopped picture of Saddam Hussein DJing. The usually glamorous Lana, lowkey in a checked grey-white-and-brown shirt tied over a simple black vest, black eyeliner and a big smile, partied with her lover all night, as well as other guests including her brother Charlie Grant and friends, actor Hunter Ray Barker and his wife Sveta Matiunina. The location is close to Arcadia, the subject of Lana del Rey's recent single, where she sings 'my body is a map of LA.' The 36-year-old, whose real name is Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, was by Donoghue's side all night at the edgy musician's 33rd birthday party held at the Fraternal Order of the Eagles social club in Altadena, East Los Angeles. Lana has made no secret of her affection for tattooed bad boys and Donoghue appears to fit the descriptionĪfter returning to LA from the glamorous Gucci 'Cosmogonie' fashion show in Puglia, Italy, Lana ran straight into the arms of new lover to celebrate his birthday at a party on Friday May 20.
'They're like this unexpected power couple of dark, twisted Americana.' He's kind of like this troubled, hot guy, someone who maybe played football in high school but then dropped out to chase his demons. 'Jack is all dark and edgy and seems anti-everything but underneath all that he's actually a good-looking guy, an all-American hunk. I mean, she's made pretty clear in her music she likes bad boys with tattoos, Jack is that to the Nth level,' the friend said. Lana has made no secret of her affection for tattooed bad boys, and the hunky half of the Salem duo fits the description.Ĭhicago-born Donoghue and his band mate John Holland – a self-described former prostitute – have boasted about their extensive drug use in previous interviews, titled one of their songs 'Yes I Smoke Crack', and slept through a scheduled interview with the New York Times.īut a Donoghue acquaintance, who asked to remain anonymous, told that Donoghue and Lana make a wholesome couple. Videos and pictures shared on social media show Lana, 36, with Donoghue at his 33rd birthday party.Ī source who has spent time with the couple told that Donoghue is besotted with his new beau and even played her songs at another recent party. Lana del Rey's new boyfriend is Courtney Love's ex and bad boy Salem band member Jack Donoghue, whose debut EP was titled 'Yes I Smoke Crack', whose band mate has spent time in jail, and whose music genre was controversially dubbed 'rape-gaze.' 'They're like this unexpected power couple of dark, twisted Americana,' they said.
I mean, she's made pretty clear in her music she likes bad boys with tattoos, Jack is that to the Nth level,' the friend said Donoghue's acquaintance, who asked to remain anonymous, told that he and Lana make a wholesome couple.Videos and pictures shared on social media show Lana, 36, with Donoghue at his 33rd birthday party.The music genre of Salem is known as 'witch house' but was controversially dubbed 'rape-gaze' and their debut EP was titled 'Yes I Smoke Crack'.Donoghue, 33, is Courtney Love's ex and is in the bad boy band Salem.Lana Del Rey's new boyfriend is Jack Donoghue, can reveal.EXCLUSIVE: Mama knows she likes the bad boys! Lana del Rey's new man is Jack Donoghue - Courtney Love's ex and tattooed 'rape-gaze genre' band member - as friend says they are a 'power couple of dark, twisted Americana'