Kevin Costner Is ‘Craving Closure’ After Christine Baumgartner Divorce

Meanwhile, there were rumors that Costner was dating singer Jewel, but he later cleared the air about where the two stand.

“No, no, no, but … I know, that’s what they are. I like the idea of that,” he said while on The Howard Stern Show. “No, Jewel and I are friends. We’ve never gone out — ever. She’s special, and I don’t want these rumors to ruin our friendship because that is what we have. She’s special. She’s beautiful enough to go out with. We were down at Branson’s island. She has a foundation, which I didn’t know, and she was part of the foundation, and Richard Branson had been asking me for years to come down to Necker Island, and I finally did. I am divorced, all of a sudden, I am a single father and he’s been asking me for years to go down there.”