" I just had a baby " — Robert De Niro , 7 times ( presumptively ) .
You may have recently heard thatRobert De Nirojust had hisseventh childat the age of 79.
Yes, he casually toldET Canadain an interview, “Actually, I have seven…I just had a baby” when he was asked about his six kids. If you’re wondering how Robert reached this brood, look no further: here’s a breakdown of all of his past relationships.
Robert’s first two children were with his ex-wife, Diahnne Abbott. Theymeton the set of the movieTaxi Driver, where she played the concession girl at the porn movie theater, and were wed in 1976.
That same year, Robert adopted Diahnne’s daughter, Drena De Niro. She’s also an actor and has appeared in a number of movies, includingA Star is Born,Joy, andThe Intern(which also starred Robert).
A few months after their wedding, Diahnne and Robert welcomed Raphael De Niro. He’s areal estate agentinNew York.
Diahnne and Robert split in 1988. He then started dating Toukie Smith, a model and actor who played Eva in the ’80s sitcom,227. They largely kept their relationship under wraps, and she told theNew York Timesin 1992, “Do you know how to spell private? P-R-I-V-A-T-E.”
The pair share twins, Julian and Aaron, who were born in 1995via surrogate. Julian is also an actor, having played youngBarack ObamainThe First Lady.Aaron appears to have opted out of a public life.
Robert married his second wife, actor and philanthropist, Grace Hightower, in 1997. Robertfiledfor divorce in 1999, but the couple ended up reconciling before splitting again in 2018. The financial outcome of their divorce gota tad messyin court.
The two had Elliot in 1998 and Helen in 2011. Elliot appeared in aSpecial Olympics videoin 2020 talking about his love of tennis. Not much is known about Helen, but he said of her in the ET Canada interview, “My daughter, she’s 11, she gives me grief sometimes and I argue with her. I adore her, but, you know. And my youngest now, that’ll be more to come. But, that’s what it is.”
Then we have baby #7, Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro, who was born last month. Her mother is Robert’s partner Tiffany Chen, a martial arts instructor whoreportedlymet Robert on the set of the 2015 movieThe Intern,where she taught Tai Chi to Anne Hathaway and Robert.
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The two were firstromanticallylinked in 2021. RoberttoldCBS Morningsthat they are “over the moon” about Gia and definitely “planned” to have her.
Robert alsoreportedlyhas four grandchildren, the oldest of which is about 20. So there we have it!
