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Celebrities Who Had Children From Affairs

Celebrities Who Had Children From Affairs

Yahoo04-07-2025
Celebrity affairs are sadly not out of the norm in good ol' Hollywood. There are romances, divorces, and a fair share of affairs for one in every five celebrity couples (and I think I'm even being generous there). It's a part of life, and a pretty big one in the world of celebrity culture. However, it's almost old news when a new affair comes to light. But there's one thing that still has everyone clutching their pearls: when the affair leads to parenthood.
That's right: sometimes affairs lead to children, and that's when it gets even messier. We've seen it in recent years with Tristan Thompson and Dave Grohl, but they're definitely not the only ones. In fact, some even happened in Old Hollywood, with stars like Clark Gable. We know, it's very messy.
In fact, we found a little over a dozen celebrity men who had children as a result of affairs they had; and trust us, it's a bit of a bummer.
Below, see which celebrity men had children due to affairs.
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In September 2024, Dave Grohl announced that he fathered a daughter during an affair with an unnamed woman.
'I've recently become the father of a new baby daughter, born outside of my marriage,' the Foo Fighters frontman wrote in a statement shared on social media. 'I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her. I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness.'
The details of Grohl's affair remain unknown, and he was reported to still be working on his marriage as recently as December 2024.
Liam Gallagher fathered two children during affairs. In 1998, while married to Patsy Kensit, the Oasis frontman had a daughter, Molly, during a brief fling with singer Lisa Moorish.
From 2011 to 2012, Gallagher had an affair with journalist Liza Ghorbani, who gave birth to a daughter named Gemma. This all happened while he was married to singer Nicole Appleton.
In 2018, he met Molly for the first time months after revealing he'd never met either of the daughters he had outside of his marriages. 'Not met the one in New York either,' he said of Gemma, per The Mirror. 'But I wish them well. if they ever need anything, give us a shout.'
In December 2022, Tristan Thompson secretly welcomed a baby with a woman named Maralee Nichols after a brief affair while he and Khloé Kardashian were still together and expecting their son Tatum, who was born via surrogate in August 2022.
The NBA star, who also shares an older daughter, True, with Kardashian, confirmed his paternity of Nichols' son, Theo, in a January 2022 Instagram Story.
'I take full responsibility for my actions. Now that paternity has been established I look forward to amicably raising our son,' he wrote. 'I sincerely apologize to everyone I've hurt or disappointed throughout this ordeal, both publicly and privately.'
Thompson and Kardashian ended their relationship after his affair was revealed in December 2021.
In 2009, Lil Wayne was expecting babies with then-fiancée Nivea and his on-and-off girlfriend Lauren London.
London welcomed a son named Kameron three months before Nivea welcomed a son named Neal.
Both women ended their relationship with the rapper but became friends with one another through the ordeal.
'It was very crushing, then she and I became very close, ironically, after he and I decided to let it go,' Nivea said in a 2019 interview. 'I know that sounds weird, but we were two people going through something that was along the lines of humiliating. It felt like, who else could you share this oddly unique situation with?'
Dan Marino has been married to Claire D. Veazey since the 80s, and has welcomed six children with his longtime wife.
However, he welcomed a seventh child with CBS employee Donna Savattere in 2005, and paid her millions to keep it quiet, per the New York Post.
'This is a personal and private matter. I take full responsibility both personally and financially for my actions now as I did then,' he told The Post in a 2013 statement. 'We mutually agreed to keep our arrangement private to protect all parties involved.'
In 1935, Clark Gable had an affair with Loretta Young during the filming of The Call of the Wild, while he was married to Maria Langham. Young welcomed their daughter, Judy Lewis, in Nov 1935, and publicly called Judy her 'adopted' daughter.
According to People, Young privately admitted to Lewis that she and Gable were her biological parents in 1966, six years after Gable's death.
After Young's death, her posthumous memoir admitted the truth.
Tom Jones spent 20 years denying that he fathered a child after cheating on his high school sweetheart, Melinda Rose 'Linda' Trenchard, in 1987.
The Welsh singer had a son, Jonathan, with American model Katherine Berkery and refused to acknowledge even after a legal battle, which included DNA testing that conclusively proved Jones was the dad.
He later claimed he was 'tricked' into fathering the child. 'If I had planned it, I would have done something more than just financially,' he said via Wales Online. 'But it wasn't. I was tricked, really. I just fell for it.'
Jones and Trenchard remained married until her 2016 death despite many publicized infidelities, many of which Jones admitted to.
In 2011, days after Maria Shriver filed for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger, news broke that the former Governor of California had fathered a child with his housekeeper Mildred Baena 14 years earlier.
The affair resulted in a son named Joseph Baena, with whom the actor has remained close throughout his life.
Ted Nugent has been married to Shemane Deziel since 1989, but in 2005, news broke that he fathered a son with a woman named Karen Gutowski. Since then, he agreed to pay $3,500 in monthly child support.
While Eric Clapton was married to Pattie Boyd, he fathered two children during affairs. The first one was with a woman named Yvonne Kelly, with whom he was dating in the mid-1980s. They welcomed a daughter named Ruth Kelly Clapton in January 1985.
The second was with Italian model Lory Del Santo, and they welcomed a son named Conor in Aug 1986.
Clint Eastwood was married to Margaret Neville Johnson from 1953 to 1987, and he had a lot of affairs, to put it lightly. However, the two most famous ones resulted in the births of two daughters.
His first affair that resulted in pregnancy was with a still-unknown woman, who welcomed their daughter Laurie in 1954. Per the Daily Mail, Laurie was given up for adoption but wound up tracking her father down as an adult.
Eastwood also had an affair that lasted from 1959 to 1973 with stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis, who welcomed their daughter Kimber in 1964.
While married to Janice Itson, boxer Evander Holyfield fathered two children with two different women, per CBS News. He welcomed a son with ex Tamie Pettaway in 1997, and that same year, fathered another child with Toi Irvin. Yikes.
Despite being married to Eudoxie, Ludacris fathered a daughter named Cai in 2013 with Tamika Fuller. Eudoxie spoke about staying with Ludacris, saying via Rolling Out, 'Many people did tell me, but I listened to my heart and it's the best decision I've ever made.'
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