Crocodile Dundee star Linda Kozlowski looked so different as she stepped out in Palma, Spain, for a romantic getaway with her husband, Moulay Hafid Babaa. The 68-year-old, who was married to her co-star, Paul Hogan, for 24 years, soaked up the Spanish sun and sights with her beau, and was almost unrecognizable with her brunette locks and glowing skin.
Linda portrayed Sue Charlton in the hit 1986 film Crocodile Dundee, and went on to play the character in its two sequels alongside Paul. Known for her beautiful blonde locks and stunning smile, Linda was once one of Hollywood’s most well-known actresses before she decided to step away from the spotlight in 2001.
She married Paul in 1990, and the couple went on to welcome a son together, Chance, before parting ways for good in 2014. Linda explained to the Sydney Morning Herald that she and Paul “just naturally grew apart”, and that there was no bad blood between them.
“One of our problems was we really had nothing in common and, over time, that happens to a lot of people,” she explained. Her former husband shared with The Daily Telegraph that their romance fizzled out, but never failed.
“We were opposites, and we were attracted to each other for a long time. Opposites in everything,” he said. “From the food we ate, the music we liked, the entertainment we liked, the colors, the clothes, the places, everything, it worked anyway.”
“It was 20 wonderful years, two or three that were sort of like worn out,” he added. “How can you ‘fail’ after a quarter of a century? Failed marriages are when two people stay together even though they have long ago lost interest.”
© InstagramLinda found love again with Moulay, a Moroccan tour guide whom she met while visiting Marrakech in 2014. They married in 2017, and she now splits her time between California and Morocco. “My partner Babaa really knows Morocco like the back of his hand,” she told New Idea, before adding that she was a new person with him.
“Paul is very famous, and I lived for a long time in his shadow. I feel good now to be out on my own and be doing my own things.” The mother of one stepped away from the spotlight in 2001 after growing disillusioned with the entertainment industry.
© Getty Images“These straight-to-video schlocky films I was getting were giving me an ulcer, basically because I was the only one on the set that cared about anything,” Linda told Scripps Howard News Service.
© Ron Galella Collection via Getty“I’d say, ‘Well, this scene doesn’t make sense.’ [They would say,] ‘Aw, so what, just say the lines.’ [And] I thought, ‘This isn’t fun anymore. This is not why I studied, it’s not what I love.’ Between that and my biological clock, I decided to give it all away.”
© John Sciulli“I certainly don’t want to go backwards and get back into that grind,” she continued. “Driving from Santa Barbara five times a week to go on these auditions I don’t even want to do.”
“But life is strange. If something happened out of the blue that was a step in the right direction to doing more good work, that would be okay; I’d work again.” Linda has been supporting her 27-year-old son Chance in recent months, after he was arrested on a domestic battery charge in May.
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