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Robert De Niro, the 79-year-old award winning actor of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull fame, has often kept his idiosyncratic beingness alternatively adjacent to his chest. Along with being 1 of the astir celebrated actors of his time, De Niro is besides the begetter to 7 children. Over the people of his career, the histrion has maintained a reasonably low-key portion bringing immoderate of the astir memorable characters of the large surface to life. The histrion became a dada for the seventh time successful April 2023. He had a daughter, Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro, with his girlfriend, Tiffany Chen. Over 2 months later, Robert’s eldest daughter Drena De Niro announced that her lad Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, 19, had died.
Although De Niro seldom discusses his idiosyncratic beingness publicly, determination are immoderate absorbing facts to larn astir his family, erstwhile relationships and marriages, and his 7 children. Learn much astir the actor’s idiosyncratic beingness with the broad timeline below, including his newborn!
Drena De Niro
De Niro marred Diahnne Abbot successful 1976, and subsequently became the stepfather to Diahnne’s girl from a erstwhile marriage, Drena. Diahnne and De Niro met connected the acceptable of the 1976 movie Taxi Driver, which starred De Niro successful 1 of his astir iconic roles. Drena, calved September 3, 1971, took her stepfather’s past sanction and went connected to travel successful some of her parents’ footsteps.
Robert De Niro and Drena De Niro astatine the 20th Annual Hollywood Film Awards successful Los Angeles connected November 6, 2016 [Shutterstock].Drena is an histrion and model. Her modulation to acting began successful her mid-20s, erstwhile she played a receptionist successful the film Grace of My Heart. Over the people of a fewer decades, Drena built up a beardown filmography with a fig of credits, including a relation successful 2018’s Oscar-nominated film A Star Is Born, starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, arsenic good arsenic a relation successful the film Joy, co-starring her stepfather and starring Jennifer Lawrence. Drena is adjacent with some her ma and stepfather, and often shares a photograph oregon 2 with De Niro connected her Instagram page.
On July 2, Drena announced the decease of her 19-year-old son, and Robert’s grandson, Leandro De Niro Rodriguez. Drena shared Leandro with New York-based creator Carlos Mare. Leo had a tiny portion successful A Star Is Born with his mom. “My beauteous saccharine angel. I person loved you beyond words oregon statement from the infinitesimal I felt you successful my belly,” Drena wrote successful her emotional message connected Instagram. “You person been my joyousness my bosom and each that was ever axenic and existent successful my life. I privation I was with you close now. I privation I was with you. I don’t cognize however to unrecorded without you but I’ll effort to spell connected and dispersed the emotion and airy that you truthful made maine consciousness successful getting to beryllium your mama.”
Drena continued, “You were truthful profoundly loved and appreciated and I privation that emotion unsocial could person saved you. I’m truthful atrocious my baby. I’m truthful atrocious @carlosmare. Rest successful Peace and Eternal Paradise my darling boy.” Robert has not commented connected his grandson’s passing yet.
Raphael De Niro
Raphael De Niro and Robert De Niro astatine the 2nd Annual Robert De Niro Prize Reception successful New York connected January 22, 2013 [Shutterstock].Raphael De Niro is the archetypal kid between Diahnne Abbot and Robert De Niro. The mates welcomed their lad connected November 9, 1976. Much similar his half-sister, Drena, Raphael besides started his vocation successful acting. Early on, Raphael appeared successful films alongside his father, including Awakenings and Raging Bull. Although helium started retired successful acting, Raphael made a beauteous drastic vocation alteration arsenic an adult.
Raphael went connected to go a existent property broker, founding the steadfast De Niro Team, Douglas Elliman, described arsenic a “real property advisory squad with 15 years of proven occurrence successful New York City resale and caller development,” per their Instagram page. Of his clients, Raphael has worked with the likes of Jon Bon Jovi, Kelly Ripa, and much erstwhile it comes to their existent property pursuits. Raphael has been joined doubly and has children. When Raphael was conscionable a pre-teen, his begetter and parent filed for divorce.
Julian & Aaron De Niro
Following his divorcement from Diahnne Abbot, De Niro started dating model Toukie Smith. During their relationship, which lasted from 1988 to 1996, De Niro and Toukie welcomed duplicate sons, Julian and Aaron De Niro. The duplicate boys were conceived via successful vitro fertilization, and calved via surrogate successful October 1995. Both Julian and Aaron are reasonably backstage astir their lives. Although they did be reddish carpet events with their begetter and parent arsenic youngsters, arsenic adults they pb comparatively quiescent lives.
Elliot De Niro
By 1997, De Niro joined his 2nd wife, Grace Hightower. The mates welcomed their son, Elliot De Niro, successful 1998. Elliot is simply a young idiosyncratic with peculiar needs, and Grace and her hubby were adamant astir uncovering their lad an outlet to bask and beryllium himself. They enrolled Elliot successful tennis lessons and helium fell successful emotion with the sport.
“He wasn’t brainsick astir it, astatine times,” De Niro confessed of his son’s enthusiasm for tennis successful a video for ESPN. “His parent was bully astatine pushing [him], and wanting him to beryllium carnal and enactment out,” De Niro went on. “He has realized, ‘Oh, I tin execute this,'” Grace said of her son. “It has helped him socially,” she went on. “It helps him beryllium much assured erstwhile helium sees that he’s really bully astatine this,” De Niro said of his son’s narration with tennis and exercising. “That’s the champion self-motivator 1 tin have. He’s gonna consciousness amended astir himself, which helium does. So, it’s a win-win for everybody, particularly [Elliot].”
Per Heavy, Robert revealed backmost successful 2016 that Elliot is connected the autism spectrum. He had conscionable yanked the arguable movie Vaxxed from the Tribeca Film Festival, stating that the arguable anti-vaccine movie is thing “everyone should see.” According to Heavy, De Niro claims via The Telegraph that Elliot “changed overnight” aft having a measles vaccination administered.
While it’s wide that De Niro had Grace person a beardown enslaved and enactment for their son, the mates astir divided little than 3 years aft getting married. They initially called it quits connected their matrimony successful 1999, but the divorcement was ne'er finalized. In 2004, De Niro and Hightower renewed their vows.
Helen De Niro
With their matrimony backmost connected track, De Niro and his woman made the determination to grow their household further. In 2011, the mates welcomed their daughter, Helen De Niro, via surrogate. Little is known astir Helen, aft each she is astir 10 years old. But years aft she was welcomed into the De Niro family, Helen’s parents officially made the determination to extremity their marriage. Grace and De Niro separated successful 2018, and their divorcement is precise overmuch inactive up successful the aerial owed to ongoing ineligible issues and more.
Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro
Robert De Niro and his spouse Tiffany Chen welcomed Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro successful aboriginal April — and now, she’s making her nationalist TV debut connected #CBSMornings. https://t.co/OJJxGcEKlU pic.twitter.com/opiFRpWkRs
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) May 11, 2023
The Goodfellas actor was revealed to person welcomed a seventh child successful an interrogation with ET Canada on May 9, 2023. “Seven, actually. I conscionable had a baby,” helium said.
Robert let CBS Mornings anchor Gayle King reveal details astir his caller babe connected May 11. Gayle showed the archetypal picture of Robert and Tiffany’s newborn daughter, named Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro. Gayle revealed that babe Gia was calved April 6 and weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces. She said Robert and Tiffany “are implicit the moon” astir their caller baby.
What Robert De Niro Has Said About His Children
Throughout his career, De Niro has seldom discussed his idiosyncratic life. But during a June 2020 quality connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the histrion welcomed the accidental to speech astir his children and raising them implicit the people of the past fewer decades. “My children are each fractional Black and I don’t have, adjacent me, I instrumentality definite things for granted,” the histrion admitted to eponymous host, Jimmy Fallon.
“When radical accidental that they archer their kids, ‘Keep your hands [out] erstwhile you’re stopped by immoderate cops, support your hands connected the steering wheel, don’t marque a abrupt move, don’t enactment your hands below, don’t bash this,’ you recognize that,” helium continued, adding, “That’s scary. That has to change.”
Along with revealing specified details astir watching his children navigate the world, he’s besides been rather candid astir however helium feels erstwhile it comes to them pursuing successful his footsteps and pursuing a vocation successful acting. “For my kids, I archer them, ‘If you privation to beryllium an histrion oregon you privation to bash this oregon that, that’s good arsenic agelong arsenic you’re happy,’” the histrion told People. “Just don’t merchantability yourself short. That’s the astir I would accidental — propulsion yourself a small much and scope for what you truly deliberation it is you privation to do. Don’t beryllium afraid.” He was precise adamant that helium wanted this kids to “find their ain lane.”
While helium has been precise reticent to sermon his children successful the past, De Niro appears to beryllium precise supportive and emotion them precise overmuch — similar immoderate different progressive parent. “I emotion my children, conscionable being with them,” the histrion gushed to Us Weekly April 2019. “It’s not easy. Sometimes it’s amusive and you emotion your kids, and sometimes you privation to termination them!” Like immoderate parent, it’s wide that Robert De Niro’s relationships with his children person been wholly unique, but besides acquainted for his longtime fans who mightiness beryllium parents, too.
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