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Despite an on-again, off-again beginning with girlfriend Karrueche Tran, troubled singer Chris Brown had managed to maintain a fairly solid relationship with the model for over a year. That is, until news broke that he had fathered a nine-month old daughter with another woman named Nia. Pictures even surfaced showing Karrueche and Chris partying with his future baby mama. Tran dumped Brown soon afterward.- Age: 35
- Birthplace: Tappahannock, Virginia, USA
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After a messy break up, Eddie Murphy very publicly denied being the father of Mel B/Scary Spice's daughter, Angel. The little girl was born in 2007, and a paternity test later proved he was the dad. - Age: 63
- Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Hugh Grant fathered three love children in the span of just 15 months, when he was already 53 years old. Two of his children were conceived with Tinglan Hong. The third, a baby boy, was conceived with Swedish television producer Anna Eberstein. In fact, Eberstein was pregnant at the same time as Hong. News that Eberstein's child belonged to Grant didn't break until he named himself on the child's birth certificate nearly one year after the baby was born.- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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Reality TV and music mogul Simon Cowell surprised the world with news that he was going to be a baby-daddy in 2013. Even more shocking: his secret love child was the product of adultery. Cowell started a secret tryst with his best friend's wife, and ended up being named as a co-respondent in their divorce papers.- Age: 65
- Birthplace: London Borough of Lambeth, England
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Rocker Gavin Rossdale thought he was just Daisy Lowe's godfather, until a 2004 paternity test proved that he was actually the then 14-year-old's biological dad. Rossdale had a five year relationship with Daisy's mother, Pearl Lowe, in the 1980s while she was still married to fertility specialist Bronner Handwerger. When he found out about his teenage daughter, Rossdale was already married to his current wife, Gwen Stefani.- Age: 59
- Birthplace: Kilburn, London, England, UK
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An extramarital affair led to Chuck Norris's secret baby. In fact, Norris had no idea he'd fathered a child until the girl, named Dina, wrote him a letter in 1991. By then, she was 26 years old.- Age: 84
- Birthplace: Ryan, Oklahoma, USA
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- Perhaps one of the more famous fathers of a secret child, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler had a daughter with the with groupie Bebe Buell, but he didn't know it until many years later. That little girl grew up to be a well-known actress -- Liv Tyler. Liv thought that Todd Rundgren was her dad until she was eight years old.
- Age: 76
- Birthplace: Yonkers, New York, USA
- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted to fathering a child with a longtime member of his household staff in 2010. By then, the child, a boy, was already more than a decade old. The news led to the separation of Schwarzenegger and his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver.
- Age: 77
- Birthplace: Thal, Styria, Austria
- Dwayne Wade is not only the dad of a secret child, he's also the father of the term "break baby." The basketball star conceived a son with Aja Metoyer, reportedly while on a break from his girlfriend, Gabrielle Union. In a case of truly terrible timing, news of Wade's secret baby broke right after he announced he was engaged to Union.
- Age: 42
- Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Charlie Heaton
Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton reportedly has a son with ex-girlfriend Akiko Matsuura. They got pregnant in 2014, when the two were in the band Comanechi.
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Once the leading Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards suffered a rather overwhelming fall from grace when news of his extramarital affair with campaign staffer Rielle Hunter broke in 2008. At the time, Edwards was still married to his wife, Elizabeth, who was suffering from incurable cancer.
Edwards didn't admit to fathering a child with Hunter until 2010, when he publicly announced that he would agree to provide financial support. Elizabeth passed away before she could finalize her split from the disgraced political star.- Age: 71
- Birthplace: USA, South Carolina, Seneca
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- Jesse Jackson fathered a baby girl during his extramarital affair with Rainbow/PUSH Coalition staffer Karin Stanford, but the political rights activist didn't admit to being a dad until his daughter was already 20 months old. Despite his transgressions, Jackson remained married to his wife of 38 years.
- Age: 83
- Birthplace: Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Mathew Knowles
Beyonce's dad is no stranger to secret love children. In fact, he has two. The first, a little boy, was conceived with Scrubs star Alexsandra Wright while he was still married to Tina Knowles (Beyonce's mom). In 2014, he fathered a second child with model-turned-real-estate-agent TaQoya Branscomb. He didn't admit to being the dad until DNA test proved his paternity.
- Tom Jones's tryst with Katherine Berkery led to a son, Jon Jones, in the 1980s. But the singer didn't admit to having a son until Jon was already 14 months old. A paternity test proved that they were related, and Jones was forced to pay child support. Even so, Jones refused to publicly or privately acknowledge the existence of his son until decades later, and still refused to have any contact with him.
- Age: 84
- Birthplace: Pontypridd, Wales, UK
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While still married to wife Patti Boyd, Clapton fathered a secret love child with Italian TV personality Lori Del Santo. The little boy, Connor, died tragically in 1991 after falling out of a window. The affair ended his marriage to Boyd.
- Age: 79
- Birthplace: Ripley, England
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Clark Gable's 1935 affair with his Call of the Wild co-star, Loretta Young, led to a daughter. At the time, Gable was still married to his wife, Maria Langham. News that Gable had fathered an illegitimate child didn't break until it was mentioned in a biography of Young, years after her death.- Age: Dec. at 59 (1901-1960)
- Birthplace: Cadiz, Ohio, USA
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- In 2015, Ludacris was granted primary custody of the one-year-old "break baby" he sired while separated from his then-girlfriend Eudoxie. His baby mama, Tamika Fuller, claimed that he had initially attempted to bribe her into having an abortion, but she refused. Ludacris later married Eudoxie in a move that some thought was a ploy to strengthen his custody bid.
- Age: 47
- Birthplace: Champaign, Illinois
- 50 Cent didn't publicly acknowledge his son until after he was outed by TMZ. The celebrity gossip site found 2013 court documents stating that 50 Cent and model Daphne Joy had a "child in common." That child is 50's youngest son, Sire.
- Age: 49
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
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While expecting twins with his girlfriend Kim Porter in 2007, P.Diddy/Puff Daddy/Sean Combs was also expecting another child with a woman named Sarah Chapman. Kim Porter broke up with Diddy after finding out that Chapman had given birth to his kid just five months before her own daughters were born.- Age: 55
- Birthplace: Harlem, New York, USA
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In 2013, former football star Dan Marino finally admitted to fathering a child during an extramarital affair with a CBS production assistant in 2005. The baby girl, named Chloe, is his seventh child. He has six others with his wife of nearly 30 years, Claire.- Age: 63
- Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Bow Wow surprised fans when he revealed that he had a love child with model Joie Chavis, in June 2011.
- Age: 37
- Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio
- Lil' Wayne has four children with four different women. His two youngest children - with actress Lauren London and singer Nivea - were born less than two months apart.
- Age: 42
- Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana
