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Weeks after Robert De Niro<\/strong><\/a> and girlfriend Tiffany Chen<\/strong><\/a> confirmed they secretly welcomed their first child<\/a> together, they had a special date night at the 76th Cannes Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Goodfellas\u00a0<\/i>actor, 79, sweetly held hands with his partner at the Saturday, May 20, red carpet premiere<\/a> of his upcoming film, Killers of the Flower Moon.\u00a0<\/i>De Niro looked dapper in a black suit as Chen dazzled in a strapless gown.<\/p>\n The pair\u2019s Cannes appearance marks the twosome\u2019s first big event since news broke of their daughter Gia\u2019s arrival<\/a>. (The duo have been dating since 2021<\/a>.)<\/p>\n During an interview for his\u00a0About My Father\u00a0<\/i>movie, an\u00a0ET Canada\u00a0<\/i>reporter asked De Niro about his \u201csix kids\u201d on May 8. The legendary actor corrected the journalist<\/a>, replying: \u201cSeven, actually. I just had a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n De Niro first became a father in 1976, welcoming son Raphael, now 46, with then-wife Diahnne Abbott<\/strong>. The\u00a0Meet the Parents<\/i>\u00a0star also adopted Abbott\u2019s daughter from a previous relationship, Drena, who is now 51. De Niro later welcomed twins Julian and Aaron, now 27, with ex\u00a0Toukie Smith<\/strong>, as well as son Elliot, 25, and daughter Helen, 11, with ex-wife\u00a0Grace Hightower<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI love my children, just being with them,\u201d De Niro previously gushed exclusively to\u00a0Us Weekly<\/i>\u00a0<\/a>in\u00a0April 2019 of fatherhood. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy. Sometimes it\u2019s fun and you love your kids, and\u00a0sometimes you want to kill them! \u2026 When you have the good moments, you forget about the ones that weren\u2019t good.\u201d<\/p>\n De Niro later revealed more details about his seventh child\u2019s arrival<\/a>\u00a0during a sit-down with Gayle King<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI [asked him], \u2018Did you want a baby?\u2019 He goes, \u2018Yes. This baby is planned<\/a>,\u2019\u201d King, 68, said during the May 11 episode of\u00a0<\/a>CBS Mornings<\/a>.<\/i>\u00a0\u201cThey both wanted this baby, they\u2019re over the moon. She was brought here by love, so he is very psyched and very excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n The TV journalist had asked De Niro if she could \u201cbreak the news\u201d of the little one\u2019s name and sex. The\u00a0Meet the Fockers\u00a0<\/i>actor, who is notably private about his love life<\/a>, ultimately agreed. King debuted the first photo of Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro, who weighed 8 pounds and 6 ounces upon her\u00a0April 6 birth.<\/p>\n \u201cHow cute is this baby? Robert De Niro and his partner, that\u2019s Tiffany Chen, are over the moon about this little girl,\u201d King added during the broadcast.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Taxi Driver\u00a0<\/i>actor is also a grandfather of four<\/a>. Daughter Drena gave birth to son Leo, now 19, in 2005, several years before her brother Raphael welcomed his three kids with ex-wife Claudine DeMatos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n