AITA… my friend’s ex became my landlord

One of my friend’s ex boyfriends posted they are renting out their home. We will call my friend XYZ… XYZ’s ex’s home is in a convenient location and good price for size of home to share with other roommates. I jumped the gun and rented the home from him.

After I moved in, my landlord told me not to disclose that I am renting from him since him and my friend had a bad breakup. I wasn’t aware what happened in their relationship since we drifted apart in the recent years. I didn’t share with his ex (my friend) but I did share with a mutual friend (let’s call her Ann) that my landlord is XYZ’s ex, and I asked Ann not to say anything to XYZ.

It’s not like I was befriending XYZ’s ex, it was a transactional/business relationship and he was my landlord.

A month goes by and XYZ messages me on social media telling me how upset she is that I would move in with her ex. She rambled on how he was an asshole to her, and told me off then blocked me. I tried to explain to her it was a good price, and location. I mentioned he was strictly my landlord, and not my roommate. She refused to use logic, and came at me with emotions and didn’t want to listen to my side.

This really hurt since we known each other for 20+ years but weren’t very close in the last 3-4 years since I went to college. It also hurt that Ann whom I thought I could trust would open her mouth when I asked her not to share this information. I introduced them to each other a few years back and I faded out of the friendships but thought we still have the friendship where we can pick up anywhere. It was apparent that I was wrong since she agreed she wouldn’t say anything and then did.

I am also not into the whole you cannot be friends/acquainted with another person because they hurt me. I think they put me in this bucket of “he hurt me” and you’re my friend how dare you do business with him.

Am I the asshole?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/144q81v/aita_my_friends_ex_became_my_landlord/