New Dad Robert De Niro Celebrates His Other Baby, the Tribeca Film Festival

Robert De Niro, the 79-year-old screen legend, founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, and new dad (mazel!) of baby No. 7 with girlfriend Tiffany Chen, arrived at the kick-off of the festival Wednesday night for the premiere of Kiss the Future, this year’s opening selection. 

De Niro and Chen walked the red carpet hand-in-hand before taking in the documentary, which was produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. 

Chen wore a black dress, an oversized beige cardigan, aviator sunglasses, and heels, while De Niro went with the classic “off-duty dad” ensemble of a polo and blazer with dark slacks. Unlike Chen, he opted for flats. 

The baby everyone’s buzzing about, Gia Virginia Chen De Niro, was born two months ago on April 6, but the world was made aware of her last month when De Niro corrected an interviewer who called him a dad of six. “Seven, actually,” he said. Pardon? “I just had a baby.” There’s a 51-year age gap between Gia and De Niro’s eldest child, Drina, whom De Niro adopted in 1976 with his ex-wife Diahnne Abbott. 

Chen and De Niro were first seen out and about together in August 2021. Chen is a martial arts instructor, and also had a role in De Niro’s 2015 film The Intern, co-starring Anne Hathaway. 

Earlier Wednesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams presented De Niro with a key to the city in thanks for his activism and support of the arts. Typically, keys are a choking hazard for babies and young kids, but this one’s mounted on a plaque, so baby-proofing fanatics can breathe easy.