Madonna’s son David Banda reportedly has a new love, marking his first serious relationship.
Banda, 18, has been romancing the aspiring model Maria Atuesta, 21, a source told The Sun on Friday.
David, who has been accompanying his mother Madonna, 65, on her Celebration Tour, reportedly started dating the brunette beauty early in the year, and the two are still going strong.
David and Maria have had to carry on a long-distance relationship for much of that time, as he has been playing guitar at the Material Girl’s shows from October through through May.
However, after her triumphant tour-ending show at the Copacabana Beach in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, David was able to fly home to New York to be with his flame again.
Madonna’s son David Banda reportedly has a new love, marking his first serious relationship; seen with his mother at the Off-White Party
Banda, 18, has been romancing the aspiring model Maria Atuesta, 21, a source told The Sun on Friday
‘David and Maria are totally besotted with one another. She’s his first girlfriend and it’s really adorable,’ a source told the outlet.
‘He’d been traveling with his mum all over the globe but was determined to make things work, so they kept in touch all the way through,’ they added. ‘Now that the tour’s over and they’ve been able to see each other again, it’s like they were never apart.’
Although David hasn’t explicitly announced his new relationship, and it’s not yet known how he and Maria met, he has been posting about her on social media recently, as well as sending flirty comments her way.
On Monday, the nepo baby posted a sweet photo of his girlfriend flashing an infectious smile while surrounded by lush trees.
‘It was a happy Monday,’ he captioned the photo.
Maria was dressed casually in the snap in a baby blue ripped tank top while wearing slim black sunglasses that were framed by her long brunette locks.
Earlier, he posted a selfie of himself in a puffy olive-green baseball cap, a black sweatshirt and amber-tinted aviator sunglasses as he wished a ‘Happy Monday to all.’
Earlier in the month, he wrote ‘You look ravishing mi amor’ in the the comments to a series of black-and-white photo Maria posted of herself.
‘You are too perfect,’ he enthused under another post, while calling his new love ‘absolutely stunning’ on another and gushing that she has ‘Honestly the single most beautiful smile.’
On Monday, the nepo baby posted a sweet photo of his girlfriend flashing an infectious smile while surrounded by lush trees
Earlier, he posted a selfie of himself in a puffy olive-green baseball cap, a black sweatshirt and amber-tinted aviator sunglasses as he wished a ‘Happy Monday to all.’
David has been on tour with his mother Madonna in recent months
He has played guitar on stage for her from October until the tour-ending stop in Rio de Janeiro this month
‘David and Maria are totally besotted with one another. She’s his first girlfriend and it’s really adorable,’ a source told the outlet
‘He’d been traveling with his mum all over the globe but was determined to make things work, so they kept in touch all the way through,’ they added. ‘Now that the tour’s over and they’ve been able to see each other again, it’s like they were never apart.’
Maria went to high school in Michigan and studies Marketing at a private Manhattan university. She is represented by multiple modeling agencies in different regions
David’s 18-year-old sister Mercy also notably follows Maria on Instagram.
The beauty is reportedly represented by four different modeling agencies: New York City’s Genetics, New Jersey’s Vie, the Milan-based agency Youth and Nation Worldwide.
Maria is reportedly still in school where she’s pursuing a Marketing degree at a pricey private university in Manhattan.
Although she has already dipped her toes into the world of modeling, she has also had plenty of more conventional jobs as she makes her way through school.
She reportedly works as a service agent at the Spring Place members’ club in New York City.
A source said she previously had stints as a Target employee, a hotel concierge and an employee at a smoothie bar on Long Island.
Maria apparently hails from Madonna’s home state of Michigan, where she attended high school and graduated in 2021.
David appears to have one of the closet relationships to his mother among his five siblings.
David has left plenty of flirty comments on Maria’s Instagram in recent weeks
It’s unclear how the two met, but they have reportedly been dating since the start of the year
David was pictured with his mother in Instagram snaps she posted on Friday
‘I Love NY ! Had fun at the Off-White Party!’ she captioned the photoset
The music icon put on a busty display in a plunging black bustier-style top
She wore it with a black miniskirt and fishnet stockings, along with fingerless black leather gloves reaching past her elbows
IB Kamara (R), the creative director of the clothing brand Off-White, also caught up with Madonna at the bash
The designer Raul Lopez (R) matched Madonna’s all-black look as he posed for a photo with her at the party
The musician was born in Malawi in 2005, and Madonna later adopted him with her then-husband Guy Ritchie after a humanitarian trip to the African country in 2006.
The adoption was controversial, as the celebrity couple were granted an exemption to get around a requirement that prospective parents live in Malawi for 18 months before adopting a child.
David siblings include Madonna’s oldest, her daughter Lourdes, 27, whom she shares with her ex-boyfriend Carlos Leon.
She and Ritchie share 23-year-old Rocco, and Madonna has also adopted Mercy, 18, and twins Stella and Estere, 11, all of whom came from Malawi as well.
