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Meet Vanessa DuBasso, fiancée of Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro: the actress owns a clothing brand and once dated Paris Hilton’s brother

STORYIshani Sarkar
Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro and actress Vanessa DuBasso are very much in love. Photo: @imvanessadubasso/Instagram
Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro and actress Vanessa DuBasso are very much in love. Photo: @imvanessadubasso/Instagram
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The model-turned-actress, whose credits include Modern Family, struggled with addiction before getting sober and starting her Vantablacklamm label, offering hand-painted leather clothes

Much to the dismay of Jane’s Addiction fans, the rock band has cancelled the rest of its 2024 reunion tour after an onstage blow-up between frontman Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro. The fight happened at the band’s show in Boston on September 13 – which happened to be Friday the 13th. Per a statement on Instagram by members Eric Avery, Stephen Perkins and Dave Navarro, Farrell’s “continuing pattern of behaviour” and “mental health difficulties” led them to cancel the tour. Additionally, Jane’s Addiction has decided to “take some time away as a group”, per The Independent.

Jane Addiction’s Dave Navarro, left, and Perry Farrell had an altercation on stage this month leading to the band’s reunion tour being cancelled. Photo: Invision/AP
Jane Addiction’s Dave Navarro, left, and Perry Farrell had an altercation on stage this month leading to the band’s reunion tour being cancelled. Photo: Invision/AP

Surprisingly, despite the band’s future being up in the air, it released a new song days after the brawl, titled “True Love”. Navarro wrote in a since-deleted post on Instagram, “I am proud of the work we did on this song but I am equally saddened by the fact that you will likely never hear it live.” He also apologised to Jane’s Addiction openers Crawlers, and Love and Rockets as well as the rest of the crew for the unfortunate turn of events.

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“My HERO 🦋 I’m immensely proud of this strikingly beautiful jaw-dropping multitalented gifted powerful man!” Vanessa DuBasso captioned a slide show this month, featuring herself and fiancé Dave Navarro. Photo: @imvanessadubasso/Instagram
“My HERO 🦋 I’m immensely proud of this strikingly beautiful jaw-dropping multitalented gifted powerful man!” Vanessa DuBasso captioned a slide show this month, featuring herself and fiancé Dave Navarro. Photo: @imvanessadubasso/Instagram
Farrell, for his part, apologised for his “inexcusable behaviour”, while his wife Etty Lau came to his defence, explaining how there had been “tension and animosity” in the band, and her husband’s frustration with his bandmates playing too loud led to the scuffle.

Meanwhile, Navarro’s fiancée Vanessa DuBasso posted a slide show of behind-the-scenes shots from the New York show, calling her husband-to-be her “hero”. “You’ve fought harder than any human being I know to be here and everyone sees it,” she wrote.

The legendary guitarist, 57, and his fiancée, 31, have matching tattoos that read, “It’s always been you.” In August last year she posed in a wedding dress for an Instagram slide show, which she captioned “marrying the love of my life”, but it’s unclear when the two plan to become husband and wife. So who is Vanessa DuBasso?

She’s an actress

Vanessa DuBasso booked her first lead role in a feature film in the LGBTQ romance Upon Waking (2024). Photo: @uponwakingfilm/Instagram
Vanessa DuBasso booked her first lead role in a feature film in the LGBTQ romance Upon Waking (2024). Photo: @uponwakingfilm/Instagram
DuBasso is a model-turned-actress. Her screen debut came in 2011 in one episode of Pretty Little Liars. She also appeared in three episodes of Legion and one episode of Modern Family, as well as in the 2020 romantic drama film After We Collided (2020). DuBasso recently starred in Upon Waking (2024), which won Best LGBTQ Film at this year’s Love Wins Film Festival. She maintains a close friendship with her Upon Waking co-star Elsie Hewitt, with whom she attended Jane’s Addiction’s New York concert earlier this month. Her sister, Alexia DuBasso, is also an actress.
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