After five years of dating, Katie Couric and Brooks Perlin have ended their relationship. The long time couple first met at a cancer research fundraising event at the Louis Licari Hair Salon in St.Louis back in 2006. A 2007 report in People said that Couric was initially thrown off by her 17-year age difference with Perlin, but that the wealthy Connecticut financier won her over. Now Brooks is reportedly moving out of Couric’s Upper East Side home in New York. A friend of Couric’s tells The New York Post‘s Page Six that Katie and Brook still remain good friends, saying “Brooks is a great person and a real gentleman; he and Katie enjoyed their time together. But after five years, they have decided it was time to go their separate ways.”