Part of this is old news, or news we just assumed a while ago, but it’s still interesting to see it confirmed in any way. Last week, Jude Law’s baby Sophia was finally born – Sophia’s mother is Samantha Burke, and Sophia is the product of a glorified one-night (or perhaps two-night) stand. As soon as Samantha gave birth, a few strains of gossip started up – like, Jude was not in Florida for the birth of his baby. He was too busy on Broadway, playing Hamlet. At the same time, there were some whispers that Jude had no real plans to visit, but I actually thought he might fly down for a day when it was convenient for both he and Samantha. Turns out, not much.
Several days ago the Telegraph’s gossip guy Mandrake reported that Jude wouldn’t meet Sophia until December at the earliest. That’s when the run of Hamlet ends. According to Mandrake’s sources, “Jude thinks that if he goes to Florida immediately, it will be a media circus… He doesn’t see why he should give the paparazzi the pleasure. Jude is keen to see Sophia and will make sure that he visits her before he returns to Britain.” Well… maybe Jude sent Samantha a gift basket or something. A gift basket with cash.
The second part of this “Jude Law doesn’t even want to think about being a baby-daddy” story is that it seems as if a media miracle has occurred! As Jude promoted the run of Hamlet in New York, it looks like no one is asking him about Samantha or Sophia, at all. Could it be that Jude will only go on “friendly” interviews where the interviewer has sworn not to ask Jude any uncomfortable questions?
At least one subject might be off-limits when it comes to Jude Law.
The star was on “Regis & Kelly” Friday morning, promoting his stint in the Broadway production of “Hamlet” — but one very obvious topic didn’t come up. He was never asked him about his daughter, Sophia,who was just born to model Samantha Burke.
Our source said, “He has banned interviewers from asking about it before agreeing to sit with them.” Law’s rep called the claim “ridiculous” and said, “No subjects are banned.”
[From Page Six]
“No subjects are banned.” Uh… right. Because celebrity interviewers are so notoriously polite, and they never want to ask uncomfortable questions. Jude’s rep sounds like a lying douche. Of course Jude makes deals – nice coverage, or no interview. It’s as simple as that. And Kelly Ripa and others go along with it because they’re not real journalists. Here’s the thing, though – what would be so wrong with Jude getting a couple of questions about the situation? What’s the worst that could happen? The question would still probably be phrased in a nice way, something like, “Are you happy to be a father for the fourth time?” or something like that. To which Jude could say, “Yes, I’m very happy.” Scandal!
Samantha Burke is shown out on 9/27/09 with newborn Sophia in a carrier. Jude Law is shown on 9/23/09. Credit: Fame Pictures. Note by CB: I was huge like Samantha after I had my son, my first baby. I lost the weight. For those of you who will inevitably bash her for having a stomach after giving birth – if you are female and ever plan to have a kid, just wait.
I read on celebrity baby scoop that he wants a DNA test before he sees the baby.
What a class act he is. I’m just thankful he never bred with Sienna Miller.
Ladies, what’s his appeal, anyhow? For years I’ve just not seen it. He’s a mediocre actor, comes across as a bit of a douche, and is apparently a deadbeat father. Never found him attractive either- male pattern baldness and greasiness just aren’t my thing.
Hey, I can’t blame the guy for wanting a DNA test. I’d do the same thing.
And I don’t expect any woman who just gave birth a week ago to not still be carrying weight in her stomach. It’s the ones who get perfectly flat stomachs again right away that get comments from me, because I assume they starved themselves or are on drugs. Or had surgery.
Having said that – I think he should visit her once it’s proven she is his kid. He seems to want nothing to do with Samantha though, and it’s a shame that this desire will probably lead to him having little to do with the baby.
It was reported months ago that he had a DNA test done by amneo, and that is why he acknowledged that the baby was his.
Firestarter’s right – the DNA test was why he acknowledged the baby in the first place. It’s his.
While I’m not a fan of deadbeat dads and having fatherless children is not fair on the children or society, it takes two and the guy, if he doesn’t want the child, always loses.
Women have a huge (but fair) advantage in reproduction, it is our body after all. If the woman decides to abort or give the child up for adoption because she feels she can’t/won’t be a mother we don’t judge her for that (okay, most of us don’t) but we’re all over the guy for saying he can’t/won’t be a dad? They are equally responsible for protection or lack there of, the subsequent production but they don’t get an equal say after that. So gold-diggers rejoice and guys, if you don’t want this to happen to you, keep it in your pants.
I don’t think he is a dead beat dad. He has agreed to support the child and has acknowledged that it is indeed his. As long as he financially supports the child, he is doing his part. I don’t think he is the devil for not wanting to dive in and be the doting dad. They had a one night stand- His fault for being a man-slut and riding bare back, hers for not insisting on usuing protection and then keeping a child that I seriously doubt she even wanted except for the riches it would bring her. Just because he had a child and she chose to keep it, doesn’t mean he has to play daddy. If he supports the child, that is all he is legally obligated to do. Morally, he should see the child, but it is not madatory that he does.
“He doesn’t want to give the paparazzi the pleasure” … Ughhh, forgive me if I’m totally out of line here but what about giving his newborn daughter the pleasure of knowing her father cared about her birth? Poor little Sophia. No amount of financial support can make up for lack of a father’s love and emotional support.
“And Kelly Ripa and others go along with it because they’re not real journalists. ”
Waitaminnit. Who IS a real journalist when it comes to celebs these days? No one asks the hard questions anymore. (And in fairness, Regis and Kelly never tried to be newsy. Pure fluff) It’s tragic, but all media outlets (except for blogs, who get to be more honest because they have less power) live inside the publicists fantasy land nowadays.
I didn’t know you could do DNA tests during pregnancy – interesting!
And I agree – it would be nice for him to have a relationship with the baby that’s not just monetary, but let’s be honest – the kid won’t notice he’s not around for some time. Maybe he’ll do video/web cam calls or something.
Jude’s effed up personal life has nothing to do with him promoting Hamlet.
His only responsibility to a kid that was the product of a brief fling is the monthly child support he’s going to have to pay for the next 18 years.
@Alaska- You can do DNA testing through amniocentisis, and while it is not rec. by doctors, early in a pregancy, it is done.
“They had a one night stand- His fault for being a man-slut and riding bare back, hers for not insisting on usuing protection and then keeping a child that I seriously doubt she even wanted except for the riches it would bring her. Just because he had a child and she chose to keep it, doesn’t mean he has to play daddy. If he supports the child, that is all he is legally obligated to do. Morally, he should see the child, but it is not madatory that he does.”
golf clap for firestarter! Amen, sister, I agree completely. you know if it were a pregnancy from some random hook up, she’d most likely have aborted. and his only legal responsibility is to financially support the child. the real loser in all of this is the little girl who probably won’t ever have a real relationship with her father.
the other thing I have to say (AGAIN!) is this…no matter how hot you might be for Jude, if you had the opp to be with him, would you really do it without a rubber? the man is skeezy and gets around…who knows WHAT he’s got that he can’t get rid of! even if her intent was NOT to get preggers, she should have insisted on a rubber simply for her health.
She will go on to marry someone who will become the baby’s father, and JL will fade into the background as nothing more than the sperm donor and moneybags. I would guess that is just what he wants to happen, and I don’t see anything wrong with it. Lots of brides walk down the aisle on the arm of a loving, supportive dad who is not the biological dad, and who is also the only dad the child has ever known.
who says he’ll be a deadbeat dad or won’t know his child? The baby is NOT missing him at this point and wouldn’t even know he was there. But the media, of course, would love that photo-op. if he played by their rules, he’d be on all the talks shows chatting about it and visiting Fla with an entourage of paps. I think people are just too used to everyone whoring out their personal matters and seem to think it’s the standard. He acknowledged the child and will support her. That’s all he has to do at this point. Samantha, on the other hand, will be visiting talk shows and selling baby’s photos to a highest bidder.Just watch it.
yes, Sue.. many brides.. many brides who can’t keep their legs together and then blame the accidental father for not wanting to have a relationship with them.. just because they got pregnant.
Honestly, I think he’s doing the right thing. He’s giving her money and will probably see the kid when he wants to. But you can hardly blame him about not being pleased about the situation. How involved can anyone expect him to be with the women? Its not like they were in a relationship until she found out she was pregnant and then he left. that would be totally different. He and his daughter can define their relationship on their own he doesn’t have to prove anything to us.
I’m not going to blast her for being huge but damn – could she try to at least cover up a bit? Her breasts are pratically shoved in our faces!
As for Jude showing up or not – it seems rather evident that he and Ms. Burke are not talking – their lawyers are. Sophia isn’t missing out at this point. It’s what he does later that’s important. I can understand why he doesn’t want to be a prop in this woman’s famewhoring.
As the product of a married older man and a 20-year-old girl who believed him when he said, “I’ll divorce her for you” it is not Jude who will suffer. I am 43 years old now and knowing every day of my life that my father never wanted me, never bothered to see me (I’ve never even seen a photo of the guy) and is apparently happy about that leaves a hole inside that can never be filled. Sure, I’ve learned to live with it–you kind of have to; but it still never feels good. And this baby will find out that her mother probably got knocked up on purpose to get fame and money.Nice stigma to put on that little girl, Mom and Dad.
I wasn’t accusing Mr Law of being a dead-beat dad I was merely qualifying my remarks about it being his choice not to have anything to do with his child (other than $ support) and it being a grey area of life.
I just cannot believe Jude Law didn’t use protection. What a dumbass. For some women starf***ing is like a fulltime job, and they are just waiting for stupid celebrity man-sluts like Law who can’t keep it in their pants, to knock them up. Ka-ching!
I’m pretty sure Clooney had a vasectomy, because seriously, with the kind of women he dates he should be careful and he knows it.
Um,why shouldn’t celebs ban topics? They are peddling their work/films,not their personal life…
Of course,it’s now come to this: That they are peddling their personal lives for attention-some of them,anyway.
But,I certainly wouldn’t say a ‘real journalist’ would ask ‘tough or uncomfortable questions’,as though that even applies to this case!
People,he’s not the president;he’s a freakin’ actor,and not an actor who has been spouting moral ethics,signing on for charity spokesperson jobs,etc.
Just an actor.
Honestly,why wouldn’t he ban certain subjects? I would.
He doesn’t owe us that information.
It just sounds silly to write it up as though if he were talking to a ‘real journalist’,that somehow,these *important questions* would be addressed.
That’s hilarious.
OH,and he USED to be a decent actor,seemed to have promise.
And,he was gorgeous.
Too many drugs,now he’s skeevy.
blek.
He looks older than his age.
Even susan sarandon said years ago he was a far better actor than he needed to be [owing to his looks at that time.]
too bad-he was a pretty boy hottie years ago.IMO
By the way Feebee, though I don’t disagree with you I do have some remarks.
“it takes two and the guy, if he doesn’t want the child, always loses.”
Yes, he loses in the sense that it is not for him to decide if the child is born or not. But if the child is born, it is A LOT easier for men to duck the responsibility then it is for women. Men also are not as harshly judged as women are.
Who ever called Mick Jagger out for being a manwhore and a dead beat dad? Britney Spears was practically crucified for being an unfit parent, while K-Fed got lots of praise for doing nothing more than what a parent is SUPPOSED to do anyway.
I get your point about it being the woman’s choice to give birth, but I don’t think it gives women an advantage on men in this issue. It helps make them equal. Women now have the right to choose NOT to get stuck with babies while the men go on and live their lives.
I LOVE that you put that little note in about her still having a stomach!!! Thanks for keeping it real!
I’ve just seen him twice in Hamlet. He is an amazing actor. Blew the audience totally away. I don’t get the ‘he used to be so promising but now he’s just a has-been’. IMO it’s only based on what people see in his private life and not his acting which may very well explain why he doesn’t want to talk about his private life.
AC i totally agree with you.Let’s not forget that she told him about the baby way ahead in her pregnancy(7 months a think), and left him without any say regarding the situation.He seems a great loving father to his other kids ,i can’t blame him.
Children often pay for the mistakes of the grown ups and maybe when his daughter grows he might have a relationshio with her.
Maybe now its to soon mainly because all the media this woman attracted and the bad relationship between both of them.
In my opinion he was just and forgive my language a sperm donor with money.
How sad for the child.
I think like someone else said — the lawyers are hashing all of this out.
All of the care and concern they SHOULD have been taking BEFORE this happened is going down now.
He’s might want to see this child BUT keep contact with the mother to nil (I’m sure he is not happy with her at all, no matter how much he is to blame), and she’s probably trying to do just the opposite.
And he is not the first to have stipulations with his interviews…Jodie Foster’s is decades-long-standing, and Jolie and Pitt tried it for a brief time for “…Smith.”
APPLAUSE @ FIRESTARTER!!!
Ok, coming from someone who has never been pregnant or having birthed a child, I will at least say this- if she knew she was going to be ‘papped’ then why not just wear a girdle or tummy supporting device? Or a more forgiving top than a stretch shirt. I’d be highly embarrassed to be photographed with my big belly hanging in front of me! Especially if I had far fetched dreams of being a model…..
A good example of what happens in cases like this is Clint Black. He too had a brief fling with a gal who became pregnant and gave birth to his daughter. The mother eventually married another wealthy man and that man raised the girl. Now that girl is in her late teens and has aspirations of being a singer. It makes me sad every time I read about CB and he talks about his only child with is wife when he also has another child. He chose to never speak of it and eventually everybody forgot. I know because that girl and her mother do a lot of the same pasttimes as me and we all know. Would her life have been better if she had been adopted out? I don’t know. But on the surface, she has had a really luxurious life.
I have to differ. IMHO, Jude Law is an amazing actor and I haven’t really seen any action on his part that would warrant a dead-beat Dad. We don’t know that he hasn’t privately made arrangements to see Sophia. He’s already acknowledging he’s the Father being that they’ve already conducted a blood test prior to the public even learning about the pregnancy.
I will agree that he should keep it in his pants. But it doesn’r stop there. Women need to learn to keep their legs closed as well. It takes both parties to create the child. This doesn’t all lay on the man just keeping his pants zipped. 😉
I’ll cut them both some slack. They seem to be handled it fine so far. I’m impressed that she hasn’t been giving interviews (except that one on her front lawn) prior to the birth. Maybe she isn’t a gold digger after all. Maybe they are both handling it privately. It’s a possibility…
until he knows the results of the dna test, everyone should stop judging.
la chica – AGAIN, there HAS been a DNA test, while she was still pregnant. It was already stated a few times above. He is the father, which is why he made any statement about it at all before she ever even gave birth. It’s his baby.
Judge away. 😉
P.S. I also know what it’s like to grow up without a dad (after a divorce) – the only one who will suffer here is Sophia. Sure, Jude will fulfill his responsibilities financially and that’s great, but it will NEVER make up for the lack of his actual presence in her life. That kind of pain is…I don’t even have a word to describe it. I hope FOR SOPHIA’S SAKE ONLY that Jude does get involved.
Jennifer:
I am sorry for your pain. But this is about Jude Law, not you. I can’t control your choice to project your unresolved issues onto this situation. Please respect my right to react to HIS situation and not yours.
I think that Jude has EVERY right to seek a confirmatory DNA test. And he has every right to elect to support this child financially without getting emotionally involved. This is the risk that Ms. Burke elected to take when she chose to have unprotected sex with Mr. Law. I hope the child Sophia holds the mother just as responsible if she ends up being messed up in the future.
I just think it’s conveniant that she told him she was pregnant at the 7 month mark. Way past time for an abortion. Good going goldigger!
La chica, How does a father have “every right” to decide not be present in his child’s life? Please inform me as to how that works.
Grown-ups know what happens when you have sex, and no one has a right to walk away from the product of a sexual union, no matter how frivolous.
Maybe people should stop having frivolous sexual unions, or stop feeling sorry for themselves about the consequences.
It is selfish and unconscionable to decide that, because you are not happy with the outcome of your indiscretion, that you can ignore it. Especially because this is a child you’re talking about, who didn’t ask to be here, and deserves better than to be completely ignored.
A father doesn’t have the right to leave his daughter wondering what she did wrong and why he doesn’t want her.
And there are no projections here. I was raised by both of my parents.
@ Jessica, I agree. They are both adults, if you don’t want kids there are ways to prevent it.
When I first started dating my now husband, I told him I was going to go on the pill, but that if it failed I didn’t believe in abortion (for me) and we would be parents. I said if your not ready for that possiblity then we shouldn’t be moving our relationship further. My birth control worked and our kids came along after we were married and when we planned. But at a biological level sex is for procreation and maybe people should consider that before they have sex with someone or at least discuss it.
She only had the baby in order to reap the financial benefits anyway. Plus she’s getting crazy media attention. I don’t think she wants Jude to settle down with her and be a daddy, she just wants that juicy monthy check.
“La chica, How does a father have “every right” to decide not be present in his child’s life? Please inform me as to how that works.”
show me where i used those words and i will respond to you. twist my words and i won’t.
actually, la chica, you’d be right either way.
Jude Law does have every right to not be present in his daughter’s life, except for financially.
he is under no obligation, other than a moral one, to have an active role in her upbringing.
@ la chica & @ wow
honestly, so refreshing to hear people blame the woman for getting pregnant! what is this 1950?
Jude had unprotected sex with Samantha. He is a famous actor and she is an unknown ‘model’…At the end of the day he had a lot more to lose than she did from this encounter. Therefore, in my opinion HE should have been the one who was more careful about protection. Obviously she was a star f*cker and potentially had a premeditated desire to get pregnant with a celebrity’s baby. She is potentially delusional, yes. But to say that “women need to learn to keep their legs closed” is extremely sexist, and really an antiquated way of looking at the situation.
Say she did keep her legs closed, would that have stopped Jude from sleeping with another starf*cker? No. It would not. And he probably wouldn’t have used protection with the next girl either. When you make important choices, like who you sleep with, and whether to use protection, you should know the consequences. Jude Law either isn’t smart, or really isn’t very responsible.
I’m of the opinion that Jude made his bed, and now he should lay in it. And I don’t mean by paying to make his problem go away.
Jude might be involved with the child down the track. He’ll probably get to know her in privacy, behind closed doors, not for publicity like Samantha Burke will most likely do. Oh, and there’s no way she’s 24!
I don’t blame Jude one bit. Send her the check and have nothing more to do with the gold digger.
Birdie, I don’t think anyone is blaming her for getting pregnant. We’re all smart enough to know that it takes two people to get that done. The thing is, we are also smart enough to know that a woman has options, from the first step to the last. If she was morally opposed to abortion she still wasn’t stuck raising a baby; she could have put it up for adoption.
Look at it this way:
1. Both partners make the choice to have sex
2. Person A finds out there is a child as a result of this sex and makes the decision to birth and raise this child, without even telling Person B
3. When informed of the child-to-be, Person B, who had no control or say over step 2, agrees to pay child support
People are acknowledging that Person A was the only person with autonomy in step 2. There were options, and this is the one that Person A took. Person B has an obligation and an option. We have no evidence that the obligation will not be fulfilled, and the optional part is up to him.
And I don’t mean by paying to make his problem go away.
I simply don’t get what this means. He’s doing what he has to do – and most likely he’ll also end up seeing the child from time to time – given that he’s a great dad to his other children I don’t think this is a crazy guess. What else is he supposed to do?
Only ‘moral’ obligation?
That’s a pretty damned big obligation.
Why won’t somebody do something about how irresponsible he is?
Oh, wait.
Indictments of her character? Whatever, I don’t know this kid from Adam, but any bile spilled over her machinations can be countered with the totally warranted phrase, ‘tough shit’.
‘Oh, she’s a gold–‘: tough shit.
‘She could have abort–‘: tough shit.
‘What about adopt–‘: tough shit.
‘She waited so long to’: tough shit.
Suck it up, grow up, man up and fall in love with your new daughter. You’d think that HAMLET here would have a better idea about the havoc caused by unreliable parental figures. But culpable is a four-letter word these days. Every priviledge comes in tandem with responsibility, and by responsibility, I don’t mean ‘burden’. The man is looking 40 straight in the eye. That people can think that life is always just something that happens to you at this stage in life and that the only thing that can save you is providence is…not where I stand. Agency. Learn it, live it, love it.
More than likely–certainly hopefully–the bond will be forged in mutual love between parent and child. We’ll busy ourselves with new celebrity targets and it’ll be great. From where I stand, no amount of vexations can hold up against ‘because it’s your baby’. The rest is silence.
First of all – who says he won’t be seeing the child? He hasn’t seen her yet but that doesn’t mean he won’t see her ever or not have a relationship with her. We don’t know because he’s not talking to the press and wants it to be a private matter.
Second – whether they end up having a good and close relationship is not just up to him. It’s also up to the mother. This sort of situation isn’t black and white.
“Mama” Besser: LOVE your comment. Hell yeah.
“Starfucker”… HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Also, yes she does have to put her boobs all out there on display because that is how we do down here on the Gulf Coast. We’re lucky she’s wearing shoes.