IT is as much a family holiday as a romantic getaway for lovebirds Mariah Carey and James Packer.

In a further twist, the pop superstar’s four-year-old twins, Monroe and Morocco, are traveling with the couple on Packer’s luxury yacht in Italy.

“Boys will be boys,” Carey wrote on an Instagram post with son Moroccan, who has the nicname of Rocky.
In another shot, dressed in what looks to be a bikini and wetsuit, Carey is seen holding her daughter.

Earlier, Carey’s ex Nick Cannon also took to Instagram with a cryptic post of the quote: “I don’t date. I inspire.”
He also uploaded an image of the couple’s twins at Legoland with the caption, “Everything is Awesome!!!”
The fledgling romance between Packer, 47, and Carey, 45 -- dubbed PaRiah -- became public when the couple were spotted on a romantic stroll together through the streets of Capri.

Packer also wined and dined his last rumoured flame, supermodel Miranda Kerr, on the same yacht for a Spanish holiday in August last year.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the couple first met 18 months ago, and friends say it was “not love at first sight”.

The Crown Resorts boss was holidaying in the Colorado ski ¬resort of Aspen, where he owns a villa, in December 2013, with his US business partner Brett Ratner.

Ratner, who runs US movie ¬financing company RatPac Entertainment with Packer, is one of Carey’s closest friends, having produced many of the five-time Grammy winner’s top-rating music videos.

Carey, who was also in Aspen, turned up with friends to visit Ratner and was invited to “hang out”.
At the time, Carey was married to successful US rapper Nick Cannon, while Packer was still getting over his divorce from model Erica Baxter just months earlier.

While that first meeting was purely platonic, there was an undeniable connection between the pair.
They forged an instant friendship that lasted through both of their marriage breakdowns.

Carey, the best-selling female artist of all time who was previously married to American music executive Tommy Mottola, split from Cannon in 2014, also after a six-year marriage.

They have maintained a friendship for the sake of their three-year-old twins Monroe and Moroccan.

Packer and Baxter, who have three young children — Indigo, Jackson and Emmanuelle — also maintain a friendship.
Their closeness was demonstrated in March when Packer attended the funeral of Baxter’s father in Gunnedah.
After splitting with Baxter, Packer was dating Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr, though neither publicly acknowledged their less-than-secret union.

Friends say Packer, 47, began “aggressively” pursuing the newly single Carey, 45, months ago, with his love interest inspiring his drastic weight loss.

The R & B diva finally succumbed to Packer’s advances when he invited her to go on a Mediterranean sailing holiday aboard his luxury yacht the Arctic P.

The pair are now said to have ¬become inseparable and can barely keep their hands off each other.
Aware of the likely media frenzy that would follow once their ¬romance was revealed, Packer and Carey appeared in public together in Italy, holding hands.

A beaming Packer and Carey ¬allowed the ¬paparazzi to photograph them walking down a bustling street in Capri, where they have moored the yacht.

“It was going to be impossible to keep it secret so they decided to get it out there,” a US source said.
“They’ve been together for a few weeks.”

The pair later posed for photographs, with a smitten Packer gently touching Carey on her back as she threw her head back laughing.

Despite Carey sporting a ring on her wedding finger, the source ¬denied they were engaged.

With both being successful in their own right, parents, and in their mid 40s, friends say they have more in common than others might realise.

While some reacted in shock at the coupling, Packer’s friends gave it the stamp of approval.
“James is looking amazing,” one friend said.

“He is the fittest he has been for a long time.”

The pair are set to sail to Cannes and St Tropez after departing Capri, with Packer expected to lure Carey to Australia for the summer.
Coincidentally, another of Packer’s other ex-wives, ¬swimsuit designer Jodhi Meares, is also holidaying in Italy, across the waters on the Amalfi coast in Positano.

As details of the Packer romance circulated, Meares posted a selfie on Instagram with her mother Denise and sister Sophie.

The ex-couple are also said to remain on good terms. Carey has an upcoming Christmas film being produced by RatPac ¬Entertainment, in which she is said to be playing a major role.
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