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KEANU REEVES TO TAKE DNA TEST
Actor Keanu Reeves has agreed to take a DNA test after a Canadian woman claimed he is the father of at least one of her four children.
The Matrix star Reeves, 45, denies ever having met Karen Sala, 46, who is suing him for child support and spousal support in court in Ontario.
Reeves' lawyer, Lorne Wolfson, told celebrity site TMZ he advised the actor to take the test to clear his name.
Sala, who claims she has know Reeves since she was nine, alleges she had a sexual relationship with Reeves before, during and after her marriage and that she believes he is the father of one or more of her children, now aged between 20 and 25.
She is asking for C$3 million a month spousal support, retroactive from November 2006, and C$150,000 a month in child support, backdated to June 1988.
Reeves, who was last seen in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, written and directed by Daniel-Day Lewis' wife Rebecca Miller, says he has never even met the woman.
Earlier this year Wolfson dismissed her claims and said: “Mr Reeves' position is that the claims are totally frivolous, that he never had an intimate relationship with Ms Sala, that the children are not his children
“This case should be dismissed at the earliest opportunity.”
Sala refused to say why she did not file her claim while the children were minors, but said she informed Reeves' lawyers of her claims before her youngest turned 18.
She said she had been “through hell and back” trying to get compensation and said she has a photo of Reeves taken at her house in 2006.
Reeves, who was born in Lebanon and lived in Toronto in the 1980s before moving to Hollywood and starring in hits including My Own Private Idaho, Speed and Feeling Minnesota, is set to take the DNA test this month.
He is next set to star with Catherine Zeta Jones in Stompanato, about the relationship between screen star Lana Turner and her lover, gangster Johnny Stompanato, who was stabbed to death by her 14-year-old daughter, Cheryl Crane, in 1958.