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■ Al Pacino was “shocked” when a DNA test confirmed that he’d impregnated his girlfriend, Noor Alfallah, TMZ reported last week. Pacino, 83, reportedly suffers from a medical condition that affects fertility, and he requested that the 29-year-old Alfallah, who is eight months pregnant, get tested to confirm he’s the father. Pacino and the film producer began dating last year. She appears to have a taste for older men, having previously dated Mick Jagger—74 when he dated Alfallah and now 79— and billionaire Nicholas Berggruen.This will be Pacino’s fourth child. Robert De Niro, who recently welcomed his seventh child, said he’s “very happy” for his Godfather II co-star. “He’s a few years older than me,” De Niro noted. “God bless him.”
■ Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied are working to save their marriage after Millepied was caught having a brief affair with a 25-year-old French climate activist, People reported last week. Millepied “knows he made an enormous mistake,” a source close to the couple said. “Natalie is incredibly private and has no intention of playing this out in the media.” Portman, 41, and Millepied, 45, a ballet dancer and director, met on the set of 2010’s Black Swan, the ballet film that Millepied choreographed. Portman won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance. They married 10 years ago and have two children. Portman discovered the affair in March, according to Voici (France).
■ Brad Pitt accused ex-wife Angelina Jolie last week of “vindictively” selling her stake in their French winery to get back at Pitt following an unfavorable custody decision. In new court filings, Pitt, 59, said he and Jolie, 49, agreed not to sell, without the other’s approval, their stake in Château Miraval, which they purchased in 2008. Pitt claims Jolie planned to sell her share to Pitt as part of divorce proceedings, but then brokered a deal in 2021 with a spirits company controlled by a liquor tycoon. An attorney for Jolie said Pitt had offered to buy her out in exchange for her agreeing to stay silent about the child-abuse allegations that precipitated their divorce.