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BABY GIRL FOR MEL GIBSON
The girlfriend of actor and director Mel Gibson has given birth to a health baby girl.
Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva was due to deliver next month, but the baby arrived on Friday and mother and daughter are already back home.
This is the eighth child, and second daughter, for Braveheart star Gibson, 53, and the second for Grigorieva, 39.
Gibson's wife of 29 years, Robyn, filed for divorce in April, shortly before he went public with his new love, but court papers revealed they actually separated three years ago, about the time of his drunk-driving arrest and infamous anti-Semitic tirade against the arresting officer.
Grigorieva has a son, Alexander, with former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton.
She recently told a television interviewer: “I have a 12-year-old, so I've been a mother for 12 years – and, of course, there is no first-time mother's trepidation.
“So naturally it's more relaxed and I'm very dynamic so the pregnancy falls into my work schedule.”
She has recently released her first album, Beautiful Heartache, executive produced by Gibson.
Gibson, who took a break from acting to concentrate on producing and directing The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto, will be seen in his first film since The Singing Detective, the police drama Edge of Darkness, in February.