Earlier this summer Lady Gaga confirmed that she and fiance Taylor Kinney had split, and though the actor is trying to win back his lady love, she wasn't wearing her $400,000 heart-shaped engagement ring on Friday when we snapped her at the beach in Malibu.

Gaga also wasn't wearing pants (what's new?) or shoes as she skipped across the Pacific Coast Highway and returned to her car with her friends. The pop star was joined by a gal pal and a mystery brunette man, but we have a feeling this is her friend's beau, and not a new love interest. Gaga Snapchatted a shot of the dude, but last month she wrote of Taylor, "We are both ambitious artists, hoping to work through long-distance and complicated schedules to continue the simple love we have always shared. Please root us on. We're just like everybody else and we really love each other."

Doesn't seem like it was a bad split, so we can't imagine she'd be flaunting this in her estranged fiance's face!