Cory Booker & Rosario Dawson: She Never Became His Wife

Cory Booker's highest-profile relationship was with ex-girlfriend Rosario Dawson.

But the U.S. senator from New Jersey, who has never had a wife, and Dawson ended their relationship in February 2022, People reported.

The magazine reported that the couple, who dated for two years, remained friends but had broken up. However, neither of them commented to the magazine. 

Booker keeps his personal life off his Instagram page.

According to Daily Mail, in 2024, Dawson was spotted "enjoying a PDA-filled getaway" with Adama Sanneh. By October 2022, she was dating Nnamdi Okafo after meeting him in a bar, People reported. 

However, People noted that people as prominent as Booker and Dawson "must be able to juggle two busy schedules and frequent time apart." In 2020, they had moved in together, People noted, but Booker was hitting the campaign trail to run for president.

He told People that the pandemic brought them closer. "We've been working on cooking together a lot more," he said.

In 2019, the pair spoke so lovingly about each other that there was speculation Dawson could someday end up Booker's wife.

"I am just grateful to be with someone that I respect and love and admire so much," she told TMZ, which reported that she "didn't want to say" whether a marriage was forthcoming.

Of moving in together, Dawson told Bustle, "It's the first time I felt like I had to be responsible about my choice of love, which is a challenging thing to do. If you fall in love, you fall in love. But there's another aspect I had to consider: what this meant in [putting] a microscope on my family and particularly on my daughter."

The Washington Post reported in 2019 that the pair met at a political fundraiser and then reconnected.

"I mean, gosh, that night we talked for hours and hours," Booker told The Post. "I had trouble asking for her phone number ... I think I said something really stupid like, 'Uh, how would I get in touch with you?' And she mercifully said something like, 'Oh, you want my phone number?' And my insides were like, 'Hell, yeah!'