Nicky Hilton has quietly split with longtime boyfriend David Katzenberg after four years, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
Nicky and David, the son of DreamWorks honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg, have gone their separate ways, despite hopes from her family that the two would eventually tie the knot. Sources tell us the split was amicable and happened after their work pushed them in different directions.
One friend told us, “They broke up quietly after four years together. The main reason was that they have been busy with their work schedules, and it has made it difficult to spend time together.
“Nicky has been back and forth traveling overseas a lot with her business. She has recently been in Asia promoting her jewelry line, and David is starting a new production company. Their schedules never seemed to match.”
The friend added, “There is no scandal or any third person — they remain close friends, they have been friends since they were teenagers.”
Despite the split, sources say Nicky and David talk regularly and have been tweeting one another.
David, a creator of MTV series “The Hard Times of RJ Berger,” has set up KatzSmith Productions with Seth Grahame-Smith. He recently told Collider that the two are working on another MTV-scripted comedy and “trying to cross over into feature-land.
“Right now, we’re just getting off the ground,” he said. “We have a comedy spec that we’re going out with soon. Seth is working on his next book. There’s a lot of stuff in the air right now, so we’ll see how things land and where they fall.”
Reps for Hilton and Katzenberg declined to comment.