Los Angeles, Dec 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Jessica Simpson is finally emerging from the ashes. After a difficult year in which she was dumped by her boy friend Tony Romo, on her 29th Birthday eve, she has now finally found love, in the form of Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan. They have started dating, and this fact has been confirmed by a source close to the pop star.” They are getting to know each other,” says the source. “He’s a nice guy.”

Even though there is a huge age difference between them, but still love is in the air for both of them. On Friday, the twenty-nine year old Jessica Simpson, Corgan were spotted together in New York City. Jessica was in town earlier in the week for sister Ashlee Simpson Wentz’s Broadway debut in the musical Chicago.

The 42-year-old Billy Corgan’s is quite a spiritual person and this fact may have attracted the pop star towards him, since she is quite a believer in God, since her father Joe was a pastor too. On Sept. 11, Simpson tweeted: “My friend, Billy Corgan, has a pure and enlightening outlook on faith” on the social networking and micro-blogging site Twitter.

“She’s a great girl,” says her friend. “She’s really sweet. She’s had a tough year. She deserves the best.”