One of Hollywood’s biggest stars has stopped being the outgoing, culturally ubiquitous figure he was for so many decades, choosing instead to hole up in his Los Angeles home, where the Oscar winner rarely entertains visitors and instead spends his time in his garden or watching movies, a new report says.

This report comes from the Daily Mail and concerns 89-year-old Warren Beatty. It said that the one-time powerhouse actor and director has not been seen in public for four years — last making an appearance at a special, 2022 Turner Classic Movies screening of a 1933 John Barrymore film. Notably, the “Bonnie and Clyde” and “Shampoo” star did not accompany his wife, Annette Bening, to the 2024 Academy Awards, when she was nominated for a best actress Oscar.

The Daily Mail also said that Beatty and Bening have stopped hosting their “famous dinner parties,” where they would gather together glamorous A-listers and others in the best-and-the-brightest category.

“Warren is a total recluse these days at his Los Angeles home, he does not really go out anywhere at all,” a source told the Daily Mail. “He has gotten tired and is not in the mood for socializing, he is over it.”

It’s not clear from this report whether Beatty has any health issues that would keep him at home. But the report said that one reason he has turned his back on the Hollywood scene is “the humiliation” he faced at the Academy Awards in 2017. That’s when he and his “Bonnie and Clyde” co-star Faye Dunaway were tasked with announcing the winner of best picture.

In one of the most awkward, embarrassing moments in Oscars history, Beatty and Dunaway announced the wrong name — “La La Land” instead of “Moonlight.”

In the immediate aftermath, the error was blamed on the two stars and their ages, according to the Daily Mail. Beatty was then 79, and Dunaway was 76. But it was soon revealed that the actors were given the wrong envelope by accountants from Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the firm charged with counting Oscar votes, keeping the results secret and organizing and handing out envelopes to presenters.

Beatty and Dunaway were asked to return to the Academy Awards in 2018 to again present best picture, which they correctly announced that year as “The Shape of Water,” as E! News recounted. They also received a standing ovation when they walked on stage, with Beatty telling the crowd, “Thank you, it’s so nice seeing you again.”

But according to the Daily Mail, the overall situation left him disenchanted.

“That made him want to stay away from Hollywood because it was so unfair and rude, he was like, ‘I’m out folks,'” the source told the Daily Mail. “You have to remember he came from a classy era where people were nicer. So he felt like he did not want to be involved in such a mean-spirited era.”

Beatty’s feelings about Hollywood also could have soured after his final film as a director — “Rules Don’t Apply” in 2016 — bombed at the box office and received mixed reviews.

Moreover, Beatty was more in the news that year for giving a rare, in-depth interview to AARP: The Magazine, opening up about his legendary bachelor past. From the early 1960s through to his 1991 marriage to Bening, the heartthrob was linked to more than 100 female celebrities, including Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Natalie Wood, Julie Christie, Barbra Streisand, Diane Keaton and Madonna.

Cher once said, “Warren has probably been with everybody I know.” Beatty’s biographer, Peter Biskind, also famously estimated that the number of women Beatty had slept with could be as high as 12,275. But the actor laughed off that number in his AARP interview, though “not without a certain amount of glee.” He said sleeping with that many women would have been mathematically and physically impossible.

Beatty began acting in the late 1950s in TV, with his breakout role coming in the 1961 film, “Splendor in the Grass,” opposite Wood. He turned himself into a film industry power player when he both produced and starred in “Bonnie and Clyde,” the groundbreaking 1967 film that helped usher in the “New Hollywood” era.

Beatty’s heyday continued through the 1990s when he starred in other classics, including “McCabe & Mrs. Miller,” “The Parallax View” and “Shampoo.” He then turned to directing, along with acting, winning multiple Oscar nominations and a best director Academy Award for his Russian Revolution epic, “Reds,” in 1981.

Beatty also had a cameo role, as himself, in Madonna’s 1991 documentary, “Truth or Dare.” At the time, he was dating the pop star, who had cemented herself as a global cultural icon.

After Madonna, he met and married Bening when they co-starred in the film “Bugsy.” They have four children together, Stephen, 34, Benjamin, 31, Isabel, 29, and Ella, 26. The Daily Mail said his children are among the only visitors he sees.

Speaking of AARP, a source told the Daily Mail that the last time they saw Beatty was at the magazine’s 19th annual Movies for Grownups Awards in early 2020, where Bening received a career achievement award.

“He was a bit spaced out and it did not seem like he wanted to be there at all, he was just sort of enduring the night,” the source said. “He clung to Annette and they barely worked the room.”

These days, Bening continues to be “in demand,” while Beatty is apparently content to stay at home, according to the Daily Mail. The source said: “He is like, ‘Go do your thing, chase your passion, just don’t drag me along!’ He just wants to be home.”

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