Sensible man? Robert De Niro has SEVEN kids born throughout SIX many years from FOUR moms…

A personal man, to place it mildly, Robert De Niro is an previous hand at giving interviews that reveal completely nothing. 

However when the presenter of the TV present Leisure Tonight Canada made reference to his six kids throughout an interview this week, the 79-year-old star clearly felt he needed to right the document — even when it concerned a revelation.

‘Seven, really,’ he mentioned. ‘I simply had a child.’

Researchers on the TV station had been so bowled over they needed to ring De Niro’s PR to test he hadn’t made a mistake. His interviewer moved swiftly on to debate About My Father, his newest lame comedy providing, considered one of many wherein he performs a cantankerous however endearing ageing father.

Was he himself a ‘cool’ dad or an embarrassing one, his interviewer had the temerity to ask.

De Niro additionally has two kids — twins Aaron and Julian — from his relationship between 1988 and 1995 with former mannequin and actress Toukie Smith 

In 1998, he additionally had a son, Elliot, and in 2011, a daughter, Helen, (additionally born by way of surrogate) throughout his stormy 20-year marriage to his second spouse, former flight attendant Grace Hightower (pictured)

‘I don’t assume I’m a cool father. I’m OK,’ replied the star of The Godfather and Raging Bull. ‘You recognize, my children disagree with me at instances, they usually’re respectful. My daughter, she’s 11, she provides me grief typically and I argue together with her. I am keen on her, however, you recognize. And my youngest now, that’ll be extra to come back. However that’s what it’s.’

And ‘what it’s’ is Hollywood’s most weird household tree. ‘Oddfather’ De Niro now has seven kids by 4 girls, together with two sons separated in age by 46 years and a son who has a nephew nearly 20 years older than him. To borrow the title of considered one of his movies, Analyze That.

At Tuesday evening’s About My Father premiere, De Niro was requested if the newest household addition had come as a shock. ‘How might you not plan that type of factor?’ he informed the New York Submit, seemingly shocked by the query.

There was no official affirmation of the mom’s id however his considerably youthful girlfriend, Tiffany Chen, was photographed final month with what seemed to be a child bump.

Ms Chen, a Tai Chi and martial arts teacher, met De Niro in 2015 on the set of his movie The Intern. Since then, they’ve been repeatedly seen collectively, together with on jaunts to Spain and the South of France.

De Niro first grew to become a father in 1976 when he married actress Diahnne Abbott and adopted her daughter, Drena, an actress, producer and ex-model

De Niro is simply three months away from his eightieth birthday and, for all of the casualness of his announcement, absolutely he hadn’t anticipated to be celebrating it with a brand new child gurgling in his lap.

Nevertheless, if you happen to’re going to be a compulsive womaniser — and De Niro’s many lovers have included Naomi Campbell, Bette Midler and Uma Thurman — the chances are that you simply’re going to finish up with a good variety of kids. And particularly, maybe, if in case you have an estimated $500million (£395million) fortune.

Nevertheless, insiders say De Niro is definitely a faithful not an unintentional father who loves nothing higher than having his prolonged household — now seven kids born throughout six many years — shut at hand.

Even so, Shawn Levy, the actor’s biographer, admitted he was surprised by the newest information.

‘I’m a dad and I simply assume it’s loopy,’ he informed the Mail. ‘You recognize, he will likely be [in his 90s] when the kid goes off to highschool. The particular person it appears unfair to is the kid.’

Of De Niro, he mentioned: ‘I’m glad for him to be glad however his happiness will finish and another person will nonetheless need to persevere for 50-odd years with [De Niro’s] selection defining their life.’

New child in his life: De Niro shocked followers on Monday when he introduced that he just lately welcomed a child Seen on Could 6 in Chicago

His eldest daughter: Robert has two children: Drena, 51 (pictured with Robert in 2022), and Raphael, 46 along with his ex spouse Diahnne Abbott

Household: (L-R) Diahnne Abbott, Drena and Robert in 1977 in NYC

His eldest son: Right here he’s seen with Raphael De Niro in New York in 2013 

The infant joins fairly a household ensemble. De Niro first grew to become a father in 1976 when he married actress Diahnne Abbott and adopted her daughter, Drena, an actress, producer and ex-model.

At 51, she is 5 years older than his oldest organic little one, Raphael, with Abbott. Now 46, he’s a Manhattan property agent whose movie star purchasers have included Jon Bon Jovi and Renee Zellweger.

The couple stayed collectively for 12 years earlier than divorcing in 1988 however their break up did nothing to decrease De Niro’s dedication to his adoptive daughter, who continues to seem recurrently with him at public occasions. She gave him a grandchild, whereas Raphael has supplied three extra.

De Niro additionally has two kids — twins Aaron and Julian — from his relationship between 1988 and 1995 with former mannequin and actress Toukie Smith. They had been conceived by in vitro fertilisation and delivered by a surrogate mom.

In 1998, he additionally had a son, Elliot, and in 2011, a daughter, Helen, (additionally born by way of surrogate) throughout his stormy 20-year marriage to his second spouse, former flight attendant Grace Hightower. That’s the official tally of kids however, given De Niro’s crowded love life, it could come as little shock if there have been extra.

Certainly, he has confronted allegations that there have been others.

Biographer Levy confirmed that for all of the alleged infidelity and informal therapy of the various girls he has pursued over time, the actor ‘actually is named a great dad’ who, when he was residence in New York, would choose their kids up from faculty every day.

In actual fact, he’s so eager on having his prolonged household near him that, even into maturity, a lot of the kids typically lived inside a block of him in Decrease Manhattan.

It’s not simply his kids, he’s additionally stayed in contact with their moms. At his seventieth birthday, all three of the ladies with whom De Niro had by then had kids had been on the get together. ‘You can also make the cynical argument that it is a monetary association, however I feel it’s greater than that,’ mentioned Levy.

‘I like my children to be throughout,’ De Niro as soon as mentioned. ‘I don’t like them to be off right here and there except they actually have a cause or a job that pulls them there.

‘I feel the Italian factor is nice as a result of the neighborhood stays collectively, you recognize the entire household lives in numerous residences in the identical constructing. That’s good stuff if you are able to do it.’

However for all his love of getting one massive glad household and his popularity as a doting dad, De Niro may need given his kids extra stability if he’d managed to ascertain safe relationships with their moms.

Some have blamed his lack of success right here on his having witnessed his personal mom fail to do the identical in her personal love life.

Born right into a bohemian family in New York’s Greenwich Village, De Niro’s dad and mom — Virginia and Robert Sr — had been each painters. Nevertheless, when he was solely two, his mom left his father after he introduced he was homosexual.

Their son, a lonely solely little one, watched with dismay as his mom went by way of a string of short-lived boyfriends.

Biographers imagine it was the loneliness of these years — raised amongst adults with few companions his personal age — that helps to clarify the secretive and guarded man, but additionally pushed actor, that he grew to become.

With Julian: Julian is seen far left with John David Washington, Danielle Brooks, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert in November  2022 in New York Metropolis

The twins: Twin boys Aaron and Julian that Robert had with Toukie; seen in New York in 1998

His son Elliot: De Niro along with his son Elliot, who’s now 24, in 2011 in France

His lady: De Niro with daughter Helen Grace out for ice cream with their puppies in New York in April 2019

His dedication to have a comfy household life could mirror his personal lack of 1 rising up: of his father, De Niro has mentioned bleakly: ‘In some methods I used to be near him, though we didn’t dwell collectively.’

Though socially he was one thing of a chilly fish, the buttoned-up actor discovered launch in medicine, particularly cocaine, wherein he indulged closely with actor pals similar to John Belushi and Robin Williams when he moved to Hollywood.

When his first marriage, to Diahnne Abbott, successfully resulted in separation in 1979, he publicly blamed the pressures of movie star. However afterwards he pursued the bachelor life with what Levy known as ‘single-minded objective’.

His rising aversion to publicity, mentioned the biographer, wasn’t just because he was intensely shy however as a result of ‘more and more he was dwelling a way of life that he was eager by no means to have revealed’.

Whereas De Niro was maddeningly inarticulate in interviews, he had no bother chatting up girls, typically following them down the road in his automobile till they stopped and he might take their quantity.

However he was additionally jealous and possessive. Actress Shelley Winters, a long-time good friend, recalled how De Niro would take rejection very personally.

When his date turned up casually very late for a cocktail party Winters had thrown for De Niro and different pals, she recalled the actor being distraught.

Child on board: On March 22, Tiffany was seen with what appeared like a child bump as she left Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California with Robert. They’d simply loved an Italian dinner with Harvey Keitel and Billy Crystal

His final spouse: De Niro and Grace Hightower in New York Metropolis in Could 2017

His woman love: De Niro and girlfriend Diahnne Abbott circa 1977 in New York Metropolis

One other romance: De Niro and Toukie Smith circa 1990 in New York Metropolis

‘He went into the bed room and pounded the headboard along with his fist,’ mentioned Winters. ‘He was crying. He by no means talked to her once more.’

He’s been accused of being merciless to girls who rejected him. Director Peter Bogdanovich claimed De Niro refused to talk to actress Cybill Shepherd after she rejected him whereas they had been making Taxi Driver within the Nineteen Seventies.

‘He handled Cybill like a pile of canine***,’ mentioned Bogandovich, who additionally fell for Shepherd. ‘It was horrendous to observe.’

In line with Hollywood gossip, he plunged into an affair with the actress Bette Midler, then single, within the early Nineteen Eighties.

His excellent sort was bosomy, slender-waisted and really fairly. They typically had sturdy personalities — which typically prompted issues for him.

Helena Springs, a surprising African-American singer, recounted how De Niro adopted her in his automobile by way of Los Angeles at some point and requested her out for lunch.

De Niro most popular his relationships to haven’t any strings, so he might see different girls, and his affair with Springs continued on this means for a number of years, she later revealed.

She claimed she aborted her first being pregnant with out telling him however, when it occurred once more in 1981, she mentioned she determined she would have the kid. In line with Springs, De Niro was not glad and pressured her to terminate the being pregnant.

After she gave start to a daughter, Nina, De Niro reportedly gave Springs $50,000 however refused to offer his medical historical past or a blood pattern, fearing she would use these to extract extra money.

Mockingly, when Springs sued him for little one help ten years later, a blood check confirmed De Niro wasn’t the daddy.

Levy mentioned yesterday that De Niro’s behaviour in that case was telling, as he continued to pay upkeep for the kid even after discovering he wasn’t the daddy. ‘That tells me quite a bit concerning the man as a result of different folks would have sued her again,’ he mentioned.

Associates say De Niro is extremely beneficiant — presumably too beneficiant — to pals and family members, however he may be bizarrely suspicious of girls and their designs on his cash.

Throughout trysts, he reportedly insisted they depart the bed room — even when it was theirs — so he might first conceal his pockets.

De Niro’s marriage in 1997 to the statuesque Grace Hightower —whom he met in a London restaurant — didn’t solely banish the salacious headlines about his personal life.

A 12 months later, he was questioned by police in Paris over attainable involvement in a high-class prostitution ring. One of many girls, an English porn star, informed police she had had a relationship with De Niro.

He by no means denied it, however insisted he had by no means paid for her firm — which prosecutors accepted.

Though De Niro managed to finish earlier romantic relationships moderately amicably, he didn’t do it with Hightower.

They appeared set to divorce in 2001 after she claimed De Niro’s drug use made him an unfit father to their autistic son, Elliot, born in 1998. A decide dominated De Niro, who in flip accused Hightower of as soon as fracturing considered one of his ribs in a jealous rage over his alleged infidelity, ought to search psychiatric assist.

They managed to reconcile and renewed their vows, solely to separate in 2018 and find yourself in courtroom in 2021 combating an acrimonious battle over cash, each of them accusing one another of dwelling ridiculously extravagant life.

Certainly, insiders say that the principle causes De Niro continues to churn out movies — a lot of them terrible — in his late 70s is as a result of he’s extremely wasteful with cash and, with so many home outgoings, not least his massive prolonged household, he can’t afford to cease working.

Levy mentioned there was an Italian streak in De Niro that he shares with Frank Sinatra.

‘Sinatra doted on his kids and was excellent to his ex-wives, however he was terrible to girls in the principle and never trustworthy throughout his marriages.’

De Niro now has one other mouth to feed however one wonders if he’ll ever be doing the varsity run once more.