Al Pacino, 83, shocked the world this week when he revealed he was expecting a baby with his eight-month-pregnant girlfriend, Noor Alfallah, 29.
But mystery now surrounds the circumstances of the pregnancy after new claims emerged the actor had demanded a prenatal DNA test after refusing to believe he could ‘impregnate anyone’, only the director has discovered. imminent arrival only two months ago and believed relationship with Noor was ‘long over.’
It comes after a source close to the couple confirmed to DailyMail.com on Wednesday that Pacino ‘couldn’t be happier’ about the pregnancy, that he hadn’t been kept in the dark about the baby for 11 weeks and that the couple were “very very much in love.
They also denounced suggestions that Noor is a “gold digger” and said she had wanted a baby for years.
But TMZ reports that The Scent Of A Woman star didn’t believe the child was his at first due to medical issues that would “usually prevent a man from impregnating a woman.”
Conflicting reports: Al Pacino, 83, shocked the world this week when he revealed he was expecting a baby with his eight-month-pregnant girlfriend Noor Alfalla, 29 – but claims have emerged that the actor allegedly demanded a prenatal DNA test (Pacino and his girlfriend pictured last month)
It is also claimed that Pacino only found out about the pregnancy when Noor had been gone for six months and was ‘shocked’ by the revelation.
It was further claimed that Noor agreed to the DNA test which confirmed that Pacino was indeed the father.
Pacino and Noor’s relationship came under further scrutiny when it was alleged that the actor thought the relationship was over “a long time ago”.
Sources claimed Showbiz411 that Pacino was “cheated” by Noor and added, “She knew Al didn’t want to have more kids, they don’t have a relationship, it’s a mess.”
They claimed that Noor did not tell Pacino of the pregnancy for the first 11 weeks.
Noor reportedly grew closer to Pacino after befriending his 22-year-old daughter Olivia, whose mother is actress Beverly D’Angelo.
The actor’s rep first confirmed the pregnancy news to TMZ Tuesday.
Pacino and Alfalla have been romantically linked since April 2022. They were seen together last month at the upscale E Baldi restaurant in Los Angeles.
Questions: It is claimed the actor refused to believe he could ‘impregnate anyone’ and only found out about the impending arrival two months ago and thought the relationship with Noor had ‘since ended a long time “. Pictured last month in Beverly Hills
The Scarface leading man is already a father of three with two women: he shares 22-year-old twins Olivia Pacino and Anton James Pacino with Beverly D’Angelo; and Julie Pacino, 33, with Jan Tarrant.
The pregnancy news comes the same month the actor’s longtime colleague Robert De Niro, 79, welcomed his seventh child with girlfriend Tiffany Chen.
Hollywood legends have shared the screen in films such as The Irishman in 2019, Heat in 1995 and The Godfather Part II in 1974.
Alfalah was previously in romances with Rolling Stones icon Mick Jagger and billionaire Nicolas Berggruen.
She was seen with Tinseltown icon Clint Eastwood, 93, in 2019 but said they were just friends of the family.
The previous year, she had been seen with Inglourious Basterds actor Eli Roth, 51.
Alfalah’s age gap with Pacino ‘doesn’t seem to be a problem’, source says page 6 in April 2022, adding that the Kuwaiti-American film producer “mainly dates very wealthy older men.”
“She moves with the wealthy jet set crowd and she comes from a family with money.”
Alfalah is from Beverly Hills and attended UCLA School of Film and Television, later pursuing a career as a producer.
Future dad: This comes after a source close to the couple confirmed to DailyMail.com on Wednesday that Pacino ‘couldn’t be happier’ with the pregnancy – Alfalah posted a picture on Instagram last month alongside the icon of actor and artist/filmmaker Bennett Miller
The Scent of a Woman star was pictured in 2020 with her three children, twins Anton and Olivia, 22, and daughter Julie, 33, at the Oscars in LA
The pair were seen enjoying a meal with Aquaman star Jason Momoa and friends
Beverly D’Angelo opened up about her longtime relationship with Pacino in a Instagram post earlier this month.
The 71-year-old actress said she decided to share details about her relationship with Pacino after her “dm box was filled with questions” on the subject.
“My story with Al started 27 years ago, two artists meeting, falling in love,” D’Angelo said.
The actress, who played Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise, said they had “lived together for seven years, had two children” and finally “break up”.
Despite their split, she wrote, they “continued steadily [their] traveling as co-parents- and came to share [their] lives with a deeper kind of intimacy, honesty and acceptance than a ‘traditional’ relationship would allow.’
D’Angelo said she and Pacino bonded over their mutual passion for their craft.
“We’ve always been connected on a creative level – our conversations about acting, the search/need for expression – it’s a conversation that started in ’96 and continues to this day,” he said. she declared.
D’Angelo, who was seen on the CBS series True Lies, called her relationship with the Dog Day Afternoon actor “unique” and “encompassing a wide range/depth of experiences and emotions, across come hell or high water, a true friendship.”
She added: “There are endless layers to every intimate relationship – and for me, Instagram isn’t really the place to go into great detail….. but I want to make sure you know I see you. and hear you, so this video is a bit bare bones primer in answering your questions.
She added that, more importantly, she had her children’s approval before posting their images and story on social media.
D’Angelo opened up in the clip about her early life with the House of Gucci actor, saying: ‘I lived with Al for seven years and we have two children; in 1996, we were on the same plane going from Los Angeles to New York.
“He was sitting in front of me, he said, get on and sit next to me and by the time the plane landed he was on.”
She said the following year, “He looked me in the eye and said, ‘I want you to be the mother of my children. “”
She continued, “Although I’ve avoided this role my whole life, I was deeply in love and 100 percent.”
She said they completed a round of in vitro fertilization in 1997 and “with great effort and the miracles of modern science” welcomed their twins in 2001.
Beverly D’Angelo, 71, opened up about her longtime relationship with Pacino in an Instagram post earlier this month
D’Angelo shared a slideshow of family photos of the twins in their youth
D’Angelo shared a slideshow of family photos of the twins in their youth.
She said that eventually things “got complicated” and their “separation was finalized in 2004”.
She added, “The power of our love for our children was the basis for resolving all conflicts and creating a new story as co-parents, leading individual lives apart but still intertwined as a family.”
She concluded by saying that she and the Any Given Sunday star continue to share “a unique and deep friendship between two artists that endures to this day – through thick and thin, 27 years now doing it our way – and There .’
