Cornish split blamed on Phillippe's wandering eye
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Ryan Phillippe's alleged wandering eye and partying ways are being blamed for his split with Australian actress Abbie Cornish.
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Ryan Phillippe's alleged wandering eye and partying ways are being blamed for his split with Australian actress Abbie Cornish.

US reports claim the actor tried to chat up Victoria's Secret model Doutzen Kroes, US TV star Abby Elliott and others in recent weeks.

Kroes apparently rebuffed Phillippe's advances last week at a Manhattan party.

"A spy says he was wilfully working the room, carrying his jacket with a cigarette tucked behind one ear. But the actor's efforts were for nil. Kroes seemed less than interested," the New York Daily News reported.

Phillippe, the star of best picture Oscar winner Crash and the former husband of Reese Witherspoon, was with Hunter Valley-raised Cornish for about four years.

The actress's publicist confirmed on Monday the couple had split and Cornish moved her belongings out of Phillippe's Los Angeles home on Sunday.

Phillippe's publicist, however, claims the actor ended the relationship weeks ago, and if he was roaming Manhattan's party scene during New York Fashion Week he was a bachelor and free to do so.

"Ryan ended the relationship with Abbie while she was in Australia, which was before New York Fashion Week, and asked her to move out of his house, which she did this weekend," Phillippe's representative said.

"She was out of town working for seven months and they grew apart."