Overview
- Unnamed insiders told Radar Online the DiCaprio–Penn friendship strengthened over roughly 18 months.
- Sources cite 2024 as the turning point, followed by closer ties during One Battle After Another in 2025.
- Penn has reportedly secured frequent one-on-one dinners and conversations with DiCaprio, bonding over Italian food.
- Maguire is portrayed as feeling iced out despite his decades-long friendship with DiCaprio from childhood.
- The News International, Geo News, and FandomWire echoed the claims on Dec. 1–2 without statements from DiCaprio, Penn, or Maguire.