We can reveal the 30-year-old Chelsea midfielder is dating
gorgeous Saskia Boxford, daughter of a wealthy financier.
Multi-millionaire Lamps had a series of dates with his new
23-year-old girlfriend last week. The pair partied in clubs until
the early hours and enjoyed an intimate dinner together—ending up
back at Saskia’s west London flat.
They got together weeks after the Stamford Bridge idol’s
ex-lover Elen Rives, mother of his two daughters, showed him the
red card.
Lampard—who twice cheated on former model Elen during a
stormy seven-year relationship—has met Saskia several times over
the last eight days.
Hours after he’d scored for Chelsea last Saturday in their 2-1
win over Wigan, the player arrived alone at trendy Kensington
restaurant Koi in an Audi at around 9pm.
Shortly afterwards stunning Saskia joined him for dinner. The
pair chatted intimately over their meal—but when they left later
Lampard attempted some nifty footwork to put fans off the
scent.
One witness said: “I saw him leave the restaurant on his
own and get into an Audi. “Then a couple of minutes later the car
appeared at the front of the restaurant.
“I think it had driven around the block. It was bizarre and I
wondered what was going on. “It didn’t take long to find out. As
soon as it arrived a pretty girl nipped out of the restaurant and
joined Frank in the back.”
The pair ended up partying at Raffles nightclub in
Chelsea’s Kings Road before heading back to Saskia’s flat in west
London in the early hours.
Slim Saskia, who works for a fashion house in London, is an
expert in design and attends all the launch parties for the latest
trendy outlets. She obviously measures up pretty well in Frank’s
eyes too.
On Sunday afternoon, the Chelsea star was back to resume his
love match—this time turning up at Saskia’s place in his £100,000
blue Ferrari.
The smitten soccer ace saw her again on Wednesday night
when Saskia joined him at the Pigs Ear pub in Chelsea where her
date had arrived separately.
Fans saw them meet up with friends and spend the early evening
there before going for dinner and then on to a club.
“One of his pals got a cab and Frank and Saskia jumped in,” said
an eye-witness. The couple ate at the nearby La Famiglia
restaurant. A fellow diner told us: “They were obviously quite
close, whispering in each other’s ears and gazing into each other’s
eyes. Very lovey-dovey.”
They were picked up by a chauffeur-driven Merc with
blacked out windows and when the car arrived at Boujis nightclub in
Kensington, Lamps and Saskia went in separately.
Saskia must certainly be a fun club date. She studied music at
posh girls’ boarding school Roedean and in an interview with Tatler
magazine six years ago she revealed: “Rap music turns me into a
ghetto slag.”
The sultry beauty has also done some modelling herself—and in
2005 she performed at a fashion show in aid fo UNICEF with Lisa B
and Rosamund Pike.
After partying the night away, Frank was spotted leaving Boujis
in the early hours alone. The midfielder then went on to Saskia’s
pad. Next morning Frank went to a club training session in Surrey
while Saskia left for a flight to Paris for fashion week.
The pretty brunette—who helps run a company called Kara
Ross selling top fashion accessories all over Europe and the Middle
East—is due to stay in the French capital most of this
week.
She will spend her time looking after clients and dropping into
top fashion outlets such as Dolce & Gabbana and Christian Dior.
Saskia’s father Michael, 66, is a successful businessman and a
director of several companies.
She has been pictured with her mother Pilar, 55, at a party for
her designer Kara Ross at Selfridges and at Tramp for Tatler
magazine and more recently attended an Oscar party bash in New
York.
Former West Ham player Lampard—who was in action for
Chelsea in their 2-0 FA Cup win at Coventry yesterday—had a
chequered lovelife while he was with Elen.
In 2006, he bedded blonde driver Montserrat Lucas, 36,
in Barcelona. The following year the News of the World caught him
picking up a mystery brunette at a casino in Las Vegas only two
months after his daughter Isla was born.
The pair spent more than two hours alone together in a suite and
he emerged with his arm around her at 2am. We watched as they
strolled back to the gaming tables and he gave her an affectionate
kiss goodnight on the cheek before heading off to find his
pals.
When we approached the girl she burst into tears saying: “He
didn’t tell me he had a girlfriend and two daughters. This is
terrible.”
The incident infuriated Elen who promptly gave back the
engagement ring Lamps had given her in 2004. She later forgave him
and the couple got back together. But fed-up Elen, 30, finally
decided to call time on the relationship last month after a
sunshine break in Florida with the children and a
nanny.
Lamps—worth an estimated £25 million—wanted to stay with her for
the sake of the children but she insisted there was no way
back.
Elen has now moved into a new £3 million home in West London
with their two daughters two-year-old Luna and one-year-old Isla.
He has already put the family’s £8.5 million townhouse near the
Stamford Bridge ground up for sale as he works out a settlement
with Elen.
Lamps, who suffered the heartache of losing his 58-year-old
mother Pat to pneumonia last April, still dedicates his goals to
her when he scores for Chelsea.
His spokesman, who confirmed the love split with Elen,
said last month: “No one else is involved.” At the time a friend
said: “It’s the saddest thing Elen’s ever had to do, but the love
has gone. “She was the one who ended it and she’s the one who’s
moving out.
Frank will continue to play a very active role in his children’s
lives and see them every day. But he and Elen have grown apart.
“The passion has gone out of their relationship.
“There have been no huge rows—though obviously there were
massive problems when he was splashed over the papers with other
women.”