Mel Gibson and girlfriend welcome a baby girl

The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - Mel Gibson and his girlfriend are welcoming the birth of the couple’s first child - making the Oscar-winner a father for the eighth time.

Gibson’s publicist Alan Nierob said Monday that Oksana Grigorieva gave birth to a baby girl named Lucia on Friday at a hospital in Los Angeles.

No further details were available.

Gibson has seven children with his ex-wife, Robyn. She cited irreconcilable differences in her April divorce petition to end their marriage of...

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