Robert De Niro shocked the world earlier this year when he revealed that, at the age of 79, he had become a father for the seventh time.
Robert De Niro wives
Robert De Niro has been married twice in his life. In addition to marrying Diahnne Abbott and Grace Hightower, he also dated Toukie Smith.
Robert De Niro’s children
Robert De Niro has fathered 7 children with 4 different women – and 51 years separate his eldest adopted daughter Drena, 51, from newborn Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro
Actor Julian, 27, followed his father’s footsteps onto the Broadway stage, while Raphael Eugene, 46, is a real estate broker, and Elliot, 25, who has autism, is a Special Olympics tennis star
Robert De Niro parents
De Niro’s father, Robert De Niro Sr was of Irish and Italian descent, while his mother, Virginia Admiral had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry.
His parents, who had met at the painting classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts, separated when he was two years old after his father announced that he was gay.
Robert De Niro’s siblings
Robert Anthony De Niro was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City on August 17, 1943, the only child of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr.
